Legal Profession (Admission) (Amendment) Rules 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 29 Oct 2021

No. S 804

Legal Profession Act

(CHAPTER 161)

Legal Profession
(Admission) (Amendment)
Rules 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 10(1) of the Legal Profession Act, the Board of Directors of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, after consulting the Minister for Law and the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Legal Profession (Admission) (Amendment) Rules 2021 and come into operation on 1 November 2021.

Amendment of Second Schedule

2. The Second Schedule to the Legal Profession (Admission) Rules 2011 (G.N. No. S 244/2011) is amended —

(a)

by deleting footnote j of FORM A(1) and FORM E(1) and substituting in each case the following footnote:

“^j	State the necessary particulars, including (where applicable) —

(a)	any determination by the university mentioned in paragraph 2, or any other institution of higher learning, of the applicant’s commission of a deliberate assessment offence that amounts to plagiarism or cheating to gain an advantage for the applicant or others; and

(b)	any misconduct (including a deliberate assessment offence, if any) for which any of the institutions charged, disciplined or suspended the applicant.”; and

(b)

by deleting footnote g of FORM A(2) and substituting the following footnote:

“^g State the necessary particulars, including (where applicable) —

(a)	any determination by the university mentioned in paragraph 2, or any other institution of higher learning, of the applicant’s commission of a deliberate assessment offence that amounts to plagiarism or cheating to gain an advantage for the applicant or others; and

(b)	any misconduct (including a deliberate assessment offence, if any) for which any of the institutions charged, disciplined or suspended the applicant.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 131/2012; S 303/2013; S 264/2014; S 711/2014; S 824/2014; S 135/2015; S 1055/2020; S 1093/2020]

Made on 25 October 2021.

LUCIEN WONG

Chairman,
Singapore Institute of Legal Education.

[SILE/2021/1/ADM; AG/LEGIS/SL/161/2015/3 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 185 of the Legal Profession Act).

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