Singapore legislation

Clause 13

of Judicial Service (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill

Clause 13

Amendment of Singapore Academy of Law Act

The Singapore Academy of Law Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “Legal Service Officer” in section 2;

(b)

by deleting subsection (5) of section 10 and substituting the following subsection:“(5) Every committee or board appointed under subsection (1) must have among its members at least one person who —

(a)

is a practising advocate and solicitor;

(b)

has, for an aggregate period of 7 years, been one or more of the following:

(i)

a practising advocate and solicitor;

(ii)

a Judicial Service Officer;

(iii)

a Legal Service Officer; and

(c)

is nominated by the Council of the Law Society.”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately before the words “Legal Service Officer” in section 14(b), the words “Judicial Service Officer or”; and

(d)

by deleting paragraph (b) of section 16(1) and substituting the following paragraph:“(b)being a Judicial Service Officer or a Legal Service Officer, he or she has been dismissed from the Singapore Judicial Service or the Singapore Legal Service (as the case may be) for misconduct in his or her professional capacity;”.

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