Clause 20

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) If the Council determines under section 87 that no cause of sufficient gravity exists for a formal investigation, but that the advocate and solicitor should be given a warning, reprimanded or ordered to pay a penalty, it may give him a warning, reprimand him or order him to pay a penalty of not more than $10,000, as the case may be.”;

by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:“(3) Before the Council gives an advocate and solicitor a warning, reprimands an advocate and solicitor or orders an advocate and solicitor to pay a penalty under subsection (1), the Council shall notify him of its intention to do so and give him a reasonable opportunity to be heard by it.”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “subsection (1)” in subsection (4)(a), the words “or section 94(3)(a)”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “reprimanded by the Council under” in subsection (4)(b), the words “subsection (1) or”; and

by inserting, immediately after the words “Council’s power to” in the section heading, the words “give warning, reprimand or”.