s 38 Certain persons can act as advocate and solicitor
(1) Section 37 shall not apply to— (a) the Attorney-General or the Solicitor-General or any other person acting under the authority of either of them; (b) the *Public Trustee, Director General of Insolvency, *Assistant Public Trustee and †Insolvency Officers acting in the course of their duties under any law relating to their offices; (c) any other public officer drawing or preparing instruments in the course of his duty; (d) any person acting personally for himself only in any matter or proceeding to which he is a party or acting solely for a company or organization which he serves as a full time paid employee in any matter or proceeding in which the company or organization is a party, but such person shall have no right to represent the company or organization in Court or in Chambers or attest documents for the company or organization which are required to be attested by an advocate and solicitor; (e) any bona fide and full-time employee of an insurance company negotiating for the settlement of or settling a claim made or contemplated against any person or body corporate in cases where the claim arising out of personal injury or death relates to a risk insured by that insurance company; (f) any arbitrator or umpire lawfully acting under any written law relating to arbitration, settling or attempting to settle the dispute between the parties to the arbitration; (g) any full-time member of the academic staff of the Faculty of Law of the University of Malaya acting solely in an advisory capacity upon instructions from a practising advocate and solicitor; (h) any accountant drawing or preparing documents in the exercise of his profession; (i) any proceeding before the Industrial Arbitration Court or the Syariah Court; (j) any person merely employed to engross any instrument or proceeding; (k) any approved company auditor drawing or preparing any instrument referred to in paragraph 37(2) (c) or which he is empowered to do under any written law relating to companies; (l) any agent duly authorized to the satisfaction of the Registrar of Trade Marks drawing or preparing documents in any matter relating to trade marks; (m) any full-time employee of an advocate and solicitor drawing or preparing any document under the authority of a practising advocate and solicitor and for the purposes of his employer. (2) The words “document” and “instrument” in section 37 do not include a will or other testamentary documents. *NOTE—Any references to the Public Trustee be constructed as the references to the Corporation– see subsection 43(3) of Public Trust Corporation Act [Act 532]. †NOTE—see section 70 Act A1197 which come into force on 1.10.2003.