Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

Amendment of section 82

Section 82 of the Legal Profession Act, 1966, is hereby amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(1) Where a solicitor acts for a housing developer in a sale of immovable property developed under a housing development neither he nor a member nor an assistant of the firm of which he is a member either as partner or employee shall in the same transaction act for the purchaser of that property.”; and

(b)

by inserting immediately after subsection (4) thereof the following new subsection: —“(5) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any transaction where the contract for sale was entered into prior to the 11th day of February 1967.”.