Legal Profession Act 1966 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4A · Registration of Foreign Lawyers, Solicitors in Foreign Law Practices and Non-Practitioners, Etc.
36I. Compliance with guidelines, directions, undertakings and conditions
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The Director of Legal Services may require any person making an application for any registration under this Part to provide such undertakings as the Director of Legal Services thinks fit to prevent any direct or indirect circumvention of the provisions of this Part.
Director of Legal Services
“Director of Legal Services” means the Director of Legal Services appointed under section 2A(1);
The Director of Legal Services may, from time to time, issue guidelines relating to any registration under this Part.
Where any requirement of any guideline issued under this section is in conflict with any requirement specified in this Part, the latter prevails.
The Director of Legal Services must cause all guidelines issued under this section to be published in such manner as will give persons to whom the guidelines relate notice of the requirements specified in the guidelines.
It is a condition of every registration under this Part that the person registered must comply with the requirements of this Part, including any guideline issued under this section and any undertaking provided under this section.
The Director of Legal Services may, if he or she is satisfied that any person registered under this Part has contravened any provision of this Part, any guideline issued under this section or any undertaking provided under this section, issue directions to that person to ensure compliance by that person.
A direction under subsection (6) must be —
issued in writing and must specify the provision of this Part or the guideline issued under this section or the undertaking provided under this section that has been contravened; and
sent to the person to which it relates at the last known address of that person.
The Director of Legal Services may cancel the registration of any person under this Part, if that person fails to comply with any condition of that registration or with any direction of the Director of Legal Services issued under subsection (6).
Where any undertaking was or was deemed, immediately before 18 November 2015, to be provided, under the repealed section 130Q as in force immediately before that date, for the purposes of any registration under the repealed section 130I, 130K, 130N or 130O as in force immediately before that date, that undertaking is deemed, with effect from that date, to be an undertaking provided under this section.
Any guidelines or directions issued by the Attorney‑General under the repealed section 130Q as in force immediately before 18 November 2015 for the purposes of any registration under the repealed section 130I, 130K, 130N or 130O as in force immediately before that date are deemed, with effect from that date, to be guidelines or directions (as the case may be) issued by the Director of Legal Services under this section.
To avoid doubt, a reference to guidelines in this section includes a reference to notices, guidance notes or other similar communications by whatever name called.