Acts Online
GT Shield

Attorneys Act, 1979 (Act No. 53 of 1979)

Chapter I : Practitioners: Qualifications, Admission and Removal from Roll

16. Duty of applicant for admission or readmission and enrolment as attorney to society

 

Any person who applies to a court to be admitted or readmitted and enrolled as an attorney, shall satisfy the society having jurisdiction wherein he or she so applies—

(a) that he is a fit and proper person to be so admitted or readmitted and enrolled;
(b) if he has at any time been admitted as an advocate, that his name was subsequently removed from the roll of advocates on his own application; and
(c) if he is a person exempted from service under articles in terms of section 13(1), that he is still entitled to practise and that his name is still on the roll of solicitors or attorneys of the country or territory referred to in that section, and that no proceedings to have him struck off the roll or suspended from practice are pending;
(d) if his estate has at any time been sequestrated, whether provisionally or finally, that despite such sequestration he is a fit and proper person to be so admitted or readmitted and enrolled.

[Section 16(d) inserted by section 52 of Act No. 129 of 1993]

 

[Section 16 amended by section 13 of Act No. 40 of 2014]

 

 


500 - Internal Server Error
500 - Internal Server Error

We're sorry, but something went wrong displaying that page. While we work on fixing this, you can return to the home page.

Alternatively, email [email protected] for assistance.