Singapore legislation
Section 41
Section 41
Non-practitioner members
(1)
Subject to subsections (3) and (4), any of the following persons who applies for membership of the Society in the prescribed manner is to be admitted as a member of the Society:
any advocate and solicitor who does not have in force a practising certificate;
[Deleted by Act 40 of 2014](c)any qualified person (not being an advocate and solicitor) who is ordinarily resident in Singapore.
(1A)
Subject to subsection (5), any of the following persons (not being an advocate and solicitor, a foreign lawyer mentioned in section 40A, or a qualified person mentioned in subsection (1)) may be admitted as a member of the Society on his or her application in the prescribed manner to the Society:
any member of the academic staff —
of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore;
of the School of Law of the Singapore Management University; (iia)of the School of Law of the Singapore University of Social Sciences; or
of any department in any institution of higher learning in Singapore who teaches law in that department;
any person resident in Singapore who is recognised, by a foreign authority having the function conferred by law of authorising or registering persons to practise law in a state or territory other than Singapore, to be eligible to practise law in that state or territory;
any person resident in Singapore who is attending a course of study leading to a qualification prescribed under section 2(2).
(2)
Every person who is a member of the Society under subsection (1) or (1A) is called in this Act a non‑practitioner member.
(3)
Subsection (1) does not apply to —
an advocate and solicitor —
who has been struck off the roll, or whose name has been removed from the roll under section 100; and
whose name has not been replaced on the roll under section 102;
an advocate and solicitor who has been suspended from practice, for so long as the suspension remains in force; or
[Deleted by Act 40 of 2014](d)[Deleted by Act 40 of 2014](e)a qualified person who has been prohibited under section 83(3) from applying to the court for admission, for so long as the prohibition remains in force.
(4)
A person admitted as a member of the Society under subsection (1) ceases to be a member if —
being an advocate and solicitor mentioned in subsection (1)(a) —
he or she is struck off the roll or suspended from practice; or
his or her name is removed from the roll under section 100; or
[Deleted by Act 40 of 2014](c)being a qualified person mentioned in subsection (1)(c), he or she is prohibited under section 83(3) from applying to the court for admission.
(5)
A person admitted as a member of the Society under subsection (1A)(c) ceases to be a member when he or she becomes a qualified person.