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Legal Profession Act 1976 s 46

Legal Profession Act 1976 s 46

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s 46 Annual subscription

(1) The amount of the annual subscription to be paid by members of the Malaysian Bar shall, subject to subsections (4) and (5), be fixed from time to time by the Bar Council. (2) In fixing the amount of its subscription, the Bar Council shall be at liberty to divide members into classes, and to provide that different amounts shall be paid by different classes and for different periods and generally to regulate and to vary from time to time the subscriptions payable by members or by different classes of members, as the Bar Council may think fair and reasonable. (3) The Bar Council may from time to time fix levies payable by members for any of the purposes of the Malaysian Bar. (4) The total of the subscriptions payable under subsection (1), the levies payable under subsection (3) and the annual contribution payable under section 80 shall not in any calendar year exceed three hundred ringgit for each member without the approvaI of two-thirds of the members present and voting in person at a general meeting of the Malaysian Bar. (5) Liability to pay any annual subscription to the Malaysian Bar shall arise when the subscription has been fixed by the Bar Council. All annual subscriptions to the Malaysian Bar shall be paid by the 30 day of June of each year. (6) An advocate and solicitor shall, if he pays his annual subscription after the date mentioned in subsection (5), pay to the Bar Council, in addition to the subscription due, an amount equivalent to the subscription so due. Disqualification for Membership of Bar Council, Bar Committee, etc.

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Find Act 166 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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