Legal Profession Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Practising Certificates
13. Practising certificates
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Every advocate and solicitor shall in every year before he does any act in the capacity of an advocate and solicitor, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Chief Registrar an application for a practising certificate in such form or forms as may be prescribed by and in accordance with rules made under subsection (5).
advocate and solicitor
“advocate and solicitor” means an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court;
An application under subsection (1) shall be accompanied by —
a declaration in writing by the applicant stating —
his full name;
the name under which he practises or the name of the advocate and solicitor or firm of advocates and solicitors employing him;
the address of the principal and every other place of business at which he practises in Brunei Darussalam;
any other particulars that may be required by any rule made under subsection (5);
if he is not a citizen of Brunei Darussalam or a permanent resident applying for the renewal of his practising certificate, that during the period in respect of which his immediately preceeding practising certificate was issued he had been in active practice in
Brunei Darussalam —
if it was issued after 31st March 1999
and was his first practising certificate, for at least 3 months in the aggregate;
in any other case, for at least 9 months in the aggregate;
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an accountant’s report pursuant to section 24 or a declaration by such advocate and solicitor that, owing to circumstances of his case specified in such declaration, such a report is unnecessary;
the prescribed fee; and
any other document that may be required by any rule made under subsection (5), and the Chief Registrar shall, on being satisfied that the name of the applicant is on the roll and that all the documents accompanying the application are in order, issue to the applicant a practising certificate authorising him to practise as an advocate and solicitor in
Brunei Darussalam.
Every practising certificate issued in January in any year shall bear the date of the 1st January in that year and every other practising certificate shall bear the date of the day on which it is issued.
practising certificate
“practising certificate” means a certificate issued by the Chief Registrar under section 13;
Every practising certificate shall be signed by the Chief Registrar and shall have effect from the beginning of the day of which it bears the date and shall expire at the end of the 31st December next after it is issued:
Chief Registrar
“Chief Registrar” means the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, a Registrar and a Deputy Registrar;
Provided that —
where the name of an advocate and solicitor is removed from or struck off the roll his practising certificate, if any, for the time being in force shall expire forthwith and the date of such expiration shall be entered by the Chief Registrar on the register of practitioners;
where an advocate and solicitor is adjudicated bankrupt or a receiving order is made against him, his practising certificate, if any, shall be suspended forthwith, until the consent of the Chief Justice for its reinstatement is obtained.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Chief Justice, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, may make rules regulating the issue of practising certificates.
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Terms defined in s 2
advocate and solicitor
Defined · s 2“advocate and solicitor” means an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court;
Chief Registrar
Defined · s 2“Chief Registrar” means the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, a Registrar and a Deputy Registrar;
practising certificate
Defined · s 2“practising certificate” means a certificate issued by the Chief Registrar under section 13;
register of practitioners
Defined · s 2“register of practitioners” means the annual register kept by the Chief Registrar under section 15;
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