Legal Profession (Practising Certificate) (Amendment) Rules 2000

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 28 Feb 2002

No. S 74

Legal Profession Act

(Chapter 161)

Legal Profession (Practising Certificate) (Amendment) Rules 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 25(7) and (8) of the Legal Profession Act, the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, with the approval of the Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Profession (Practising Certificate) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2000.

Deletion and substitution of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Legal Profession (Practising Certificate) Rules (R 6) is deleted and the following rule substituted therefor:

“Definitions

2. In these Rules —

“electronic filing” means the filing of an application for a practising certificate by electronic transmission in accordance with any practice direction for the time being issued by the Registrar;

“practice year” means the period from 1st April in a calendar year to 31st March in the ensuing calendar.”.

Amendment of rule 5

3. Rule 5(1) of the Legal Profession (Practising Certificate) Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “certificate”, the words “, other than an application by electronic filing,”.

Made this 9th day of February 2000.

PALAKRISHNAN

President,
Council of the Law Society of
Singapore.

[LS/18/2000; AG/LEG/SL/161/97/1 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 131 of the Legal Profession Act).

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