Section 173

A foreign law practice which establishes a representative office in Singapore must give the Director of Legal Services notice in the prescribed manner of the establishment of that representative office, within 7 working days after the date of the establishment of that representative office.

A foreign law practice which ceases to operate its representative office in Singapore must give the Director of Legal Services notice in the prescribed manner of such cessation, within 7 working days after the date of such cessation.

The Director of Legal Services must maintain a register of every representative office which is operated in Singapore by a foreign law practice.

Every notice under subsection (1) or (2) must contain such particulars of the foreign law practice and the representative office as may be prescribed.

Where, immediately before 18 November 2015, any representative office of a foreign law practice was issued, or was deemed to have been issued, a representative office licence under the repealed section 130F as in force immediately before that date, that foreign law practice is deemed to have given the Director of Legal Services notice of the establishment of that representative office under this section, with effect from that date.

The Attorney-General may transfer to the Director of Legal Services the particulars of any foreign law practice, and any representative office of a foreign law practice, mentioned in subsection (5), and the Director of Legal Services may, upon receiving those particulars, enter those particulars in the register maintained under subsection (3), without any action on the part of that foreign law practice.