Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill

Clause 11

Amendment of section 79

Section 79 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “neither he nor a member nor an assistant of the firm of which he is a member either as partner or employee” in the 3rd and 4th lines of subsection (1) and substituting the words “no specified person”; and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “sale of immovable property” in subsection (2) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:“ “specified person”, in relation to a solicitor, means —

(a)

the solicitor himself;

(b)

any member or assistant of the firm of which the solicitor is a member either as a partner, consultant or an employee; or

(c)

any director or employee of the law corporation of which the solicitor is a director or an employee.”.

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