Legal Profession Act 1976 s 97

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s 97 Appointment of Investigating Tribunal Panel

(1) The Disciplinary Board shall, from time to time as may be required, appoint an Investigating Tribunal Panel, from a list supplied by the Bar Council, comprising sixty members of whom forty members shall be advocates and solicitors of not less than seven years’ standing and having valid practising certificates and twenty members who are lay persons: Provided that the Disciplinary Board may, whenever it deems it necessary or expedient, and after consulting the Bar Council, vary the number of members of the Investigating Tribunal Panel. Any variation of the number of members shall be in the same proportion of advocates and solicitors and lay persons as described above. (2) Every member of the Investigating Tribunal Panel shall serve for a term of two years: Provided that the Disciplinary Board may extend his term for a period not exceeding a further two years or reappoint him.

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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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