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Timestamp: 2020-07-10 10:22:55
Document Index: 207037434

Matched Legal Cases: ['art\n81', 'art\n81', 'art\n81', 'art\n81', 'art\n130', 'art\n130']

(effective from 19 Sep 2008 to 14 Oct 2008)
Part II ADMISSION OF ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS
Division 1 — Board of Legal Education
3 Establishment of Board of Legal Education
4 Purposes of Board
5 General powers of Board
6 Senate of Academy may give directions to Board
7 Board may approve certain persons as qualified persons
9 Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Secretary
Division 2 — Qualified persons
11 Admission of advocates and solicitors
12 Qualifications for admission
13 Periods of pupillage
14 Service of pupillage
15 Admission of Malayan practitioners
16 Hong Kong practitioners
17 Applications for admission under sections 11 (1) and 15 (1)
18 Applications for admission under section 15 (2)
19 Service of documents and objections
20 Caveats and misrepresentations
21 Ad hoc admissions
22 Review of Board’s decision
23 Hearing of application
24 Declaration, duty and roll
27B Referral to Disciplinary Committee and suspension of practising certificates
40A Foreign practitioner members
62 Power of Council to accept gifts
Part VI PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE OF SOLICITORS
71 Rules as to professional practice, etiquette, conduct and discipline
78 Solicitors’ clerks
Part VIA LAW CORPORATIONS
81A Interpretation of this Part
81B Approval for law corporations
81C Name of law corporation
81D Effect of company becoming law corporation
81E Relationship between client and law corporation
81F Professional misconduct
81G Requirements as to alteration of memorandum or articles of association
81H Shares of law corporation
81I Additional grounds for winding up law corporation
81J Right of appeal against decisions of Council under this Part
81K Register of law corporations
81L This Part to prevail over inconsistent provisions of memorandum and articles of association
81M Application of Companies Act and other written law to law corporations
81N Rules on law corporations
81O Reference in other written law
Part VIB LIMITED LIABILITY LAW PARTNERSHIPS
81P Interpretation of this Part
81Q Approval for limited liability law partnerships
81R Name of limited liability law partnership
81S Effect of becoming limited liability law partnership
81T Relationship between client and limited liability law partnership
81U Professional misconduct
81V Effect of disciplinary action
81W Additional grounds for winding up limited liability law partnership
81X Right of appeal against decisions of Council under this Part
81Y Register of limited liability law partnerships
81Z This Part to prevail over inconsistent provisions of limited liability partnership agreement
81ZA Application of Limited Liability Partnerships Act and other written law to limited liability law partnerships
81ZB Rules on limited liability law partnerships
81ZC Reference in other written law
82 Jurisdiction of Supreme Court over solicitors and legal officers
82A Disciplinary proceedings against legal officers and non-practising solicitors
83 Power to strike off rollor suspend or censure
85 Complaints against advocates and solicitors
88 Council’s power to order penalty
89 Application to appoint Disciplinary Committee
90 Appointment of Disciplinary Committee
91 Proceedings and powers of Disciplinary Committee
92 Complaint made by Judge or Attorney-General
93 Findings of Disciplinary Committee
95 Provisions as to penalties
96 Procedure for complainant dissatisfied with Council’s decision
97 Procedure for complainant dissatisfied with Disciplinary Committee’s decision
98 Order to show cause
Part IXA JOINT LAW VENTURES, FORMAL LAW ALLIANCES, FOREIGN LAW PRACTICES, REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES, FOREIGN LAWYERS, AND SOLICITORS PRACTISING IN JOINT LAW VENTURES OR FOREIGN LAW PRACTICES
130A Interpretation of this Part
130B Joint Law Venture
130C Formal Law Alliance
130D Qualifying Foreign Law Practice
130E Licensed foreign law practice
130F Representative office
130G Suspension or revocation of Joint Law Venture licence or Formal Law Alliance licence
130H Suspension or revocation of Qualifying Foreign Law Practice licence, foreign law practice licence or representative office licence
130I Registration of foreign lawyer to practise Singapore law in Joint Law Venture or Qualifying Foreign Law Practice
130J Registration of foreign lawyer to practise Singapore law in Singapore law practice
130K Registration of foreign lawyer to practise foreign law in Joint Law Venture, foreign law practice or Singapore law practice
130L Foreign interests in Singapore law practices
130M Measures to ensure compliance with section 130L
130N Registration of solicitor to practise Singapore law in Joint Law Venture or its constituent foreign law practice, Qualifying Foreign Law Practice or licensed foreign law practice
130O Registration of solicitor to practise foreign law in Joint Law Venture or foreign law practice
130P Application for and renewal of licence, registration or approval under this Part
130Q Compliance with guidelines, directions, undertakings and conditions
130R Disciplinary control over foreign lawyers and solicitors registered under this Part, etc.
130S Attorney-General’s decision final, etc.
130T Failure to apply for licence, register or furnish information
130U Civil penalty
130V Liability of partners, directors and shareholders
130W Rules
131 General provision as to rules
132 Offices of Board and Society
133 Service of documents
134 Recovery of moneys by Society
135 Rules Committee to prescribe certain fees and costs
136 Relief to banks
137 Jurisdiction of court
Not current version (effective from 19 Sep 2008 to 14 Oct 2008)
(Original Enactment: Act 5 of 1981)
An Act to establish the Board of Legal Education, to constitute the Law Society of Singapore and to amend and consolidate the law relating to the legal profession.
(a) in relation to contentious business, any person who, as principal or on behalf of another person, retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person who is or may be liable to pay a solicitor’s , a law corporation’s or a limited liability law partnership’s costs; and
[41/2005 wef 04/12/2006]
[19/2008 wef 19/09/2008]
(a) before 1st May 1993 —
(i) has passed the final examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in the University of Malaya in Singapore, the University of Singapore or the National University of Singapore;
(ii) was and still is a barrister-at-law of England or of Northern Ireland or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland;
(iii) was and still is a solicitor in England or Northern Ireland or a writer to the Signet, law agent or solicitor in Scotland; or
(iv) was and still is in possession of such other degree or qualification as may have been declared by the Minister under section 7 in force immediately before 1st January 1994 and has obtained a certificate from the Board under that section;
(b) on or after 1st May 1993 possesses such qualifications and satisfies such requirements as the Minister may prescribe under subsection (2); or
(c) is approved by the Board as a qualified person under section 7;
“Review Committee ” means a Review Committee constituted under section 85(6);
(a) the practice of a solicitor who practises on his own account;
(b) a firm of solicitors;
(c) a limited liability law partnership; or
(d) a law corporation;
“trust” and “trustee” extend to implied and constructive trusts and to cases where the trustee has a beneficial interest in the trust property and to the duties incident to the office of a personal representative, and “trustee”, where the context admits, includes a personal representative.
[11/79; 5/81; 17/84; 30/86; 15/89; 16/93; 41/93; 4/2000]
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of “qualified person” in subsection (1), the Minister may, after consultation with the Board, make rules to prescribe the qualifications, education and training for persons seeking to be qualified persons under this Act.
[41/93]
(a) prescribe the institutions of higher learning, and the courses provided and qualifications conferred thereby, which may be recognised for the purposes of this Act, and may include provisions for the review by the Board of the syllabus and contents of such courses and examinations leading to such qualifications;
(d) provide for the exemption of any person or classes of persons from any of the provisions thereof by the Minister or by the Board; and
(a) sections 78, 81D, 81E, 81F, 81H, 81S, 81T and 81U;
(b) references to a law firm or firm in this Act, except in Part IXA,