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Legal Profession Act 1976 s 70

Legal Profession Act 1976 s 70

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s 70 Annual general meeting of State Bar

(1) The Secretary of each State Bar shall, before the first day of March in each year, summon all members of the State Bar to an annual general meeting to be held in that month at a time and place to be fixed by him. Only members of the State Bar shall be entitled to attend and vote at the meeting. (1A) The State Bar Committee shall cause to be prepared and presented to the annual general meetingβ€” (a) a report on the activities of the State Bar during its term of office; and (b) proper accounts, duly audited, of all funds, property and assets of the State Bar for the twelve months ending on the 31 day of December immediately preceding such general meeting. (2) At every annual general meeting, the Chairman of the State Bar Committee shall preside and in his absence the most senior member present who is willing to preside shall preside, and the quorum shall be one-third of the total number of members of the State Bar. If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for holding the meeting it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the week next following at the same time and place unless otherwise notified to members by the State Bar Committee. (3) Any question at that meeting shall be decided by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting and the presiding member shall have a casting vote. (4) The meeting shall elect from among the members of the State Bar a Chairman and not less than four and not more than six members to form the State Bar Committee. (5) The Chairman and the members of the Committee so elected shall hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the State Bar. (6) Every State Bar Committee shall appoint a Secretary who shall be a Member of the State Bar. (7) After the election of the State Bar Committee the meeting shall elect one member of the State Bar (who need not be a member of the State Bar Committee) to represent the State Bar on the Bar Council: Provided that where the Chairman of the State Bar Committee elected pursuant to subsection (4) is also the current President or Vice-President of the Malaysian Bar, the meeting shall elect two members instead of one under this subsection. (7A) If for any reason a member elected under subsection (7) vacates office, the State Bar Committee shall appoint another member of the State Bar to take his place and the member so appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the term of office of the member he replaces. (8) The Chairman of the State Bar Committee shall inform the Registrar and the Secretary of the Malaysian Bar the names of the persons elected and appointed as Chairman, members and Secretary respectively of the State Bar Committee and of the persons elected as representatives of the State Bar on the Bar Council. (9) The Secretary of the Malaysian Bar shall, in the month of October in each year send to all Assistant Registrars in each State a list of all the representatives elected to represent the State Bars on the Bar Council; and the lists shall be made available for inspection by all members without charge.

Read this section in the full act β†’ Β· Open Part V β†’

Find Act 166 on lom.agc.gov.my β†—

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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