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Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules 2015 · As enacted · Part 1 · Preliminary

2. Definitions

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2018. 2 amendments in all.

Subregulation 1

In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“child representative” means a child representative appointed, under Division 1 of Part 4 of the Family Justice Rules 2014 (G.N. No. S 813/2014), to represent the interests of a child in any proceedings involving the child, or the custody and welfare of the child;

“client account” and “client’s money” have the same meanings as in rule 2(1) of the Legal Profession (Solicitors’ Accounts) Rules (R 8);

“conveyancing money” has the same meaning as in rule 2(2) of the Conveyancing and Law of Property (Conveyancing) Rules 2011 (G.N. No. S 391/2011);

“court” means any court of competent jurisdiction in Singapore;

“debt collection business” means a business the principal operations of which relate to the collection of debts, but does not include either of the following:

(a)

any business carried out by a legal practitioner as a trustee in bankruptcy, or as a nominee in a voluntary arrangement relating to a debtor who is an individual;

(b)

any business in the nature, or that is part, of a factoring arrangement or receivables financing arrangement;

“dispute resolution proceedings” has the same meaning as in section 5B of the Civil Law Act (Cap. 43);

“family proceedings” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Family Justice Act 2014 (Act 27 of 2014);

“funded party” has the same meaning as in section 5B of the Civil Law Act;

“immediate family member” means a spouse, child, grandchild, sibling, sibling’s child, parent or grandparent;

“law practice” means any law practice entity other than a representative office;

“parenting coordinator” means a parenting coordinator appointed by the court to manage and facilitate the resolution of disputes relating to the custody of, access to and welfare of a child, for instance, by educating and providing guidance to the parents of the child, and by making recommendations to the court (when required);

“publicity” means any form of advertisement, and includes any advertisement that —

(a)

is printed or contained in any medium for the communication of information; or

(b)

appears in, or is communicated through or retrievable from, any mass medium (electronic or otherwise) or the Internet,and “publicise”, “publicised” and “publicising” are to be construed accordingly;

“relevant appeal” and “relevant proceedings” have the same meanings as in section 36O(1) of the Act;

“Third-Party Funder” has the same meaning as in section 5B of the Civil Law Act;

“third-party funding contract” has the same meaning as in section 5B of the Civil Law Act;

“tribunal” means any judicial, quasi-judicial, administrative or regulatory body or authority in Singapore, or any tribunal in Singapore that is established by law, and includes any of the following:

(a)

any commission of inquiry or committee of inquiry appointed under the Inquiries Act (Cap. 139A), or any committee of inquiry or board of inquiry appointed under any other written law;

(b)

any Industrial Arbitration Court or the President, Deputy President, Registrar, Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar of the Industrial Arbitration Court appointed under the Industrial Relations Act (Cap. 136), a conciliation officer or referee appointed under the Industrial Relations Act, or the Commissioner for Labour, a Deputy Commissioner for Labour, a Principal Assistant Commissioner for Labour or an Assistant Commissioner for Labour appointed under the Employment Act (Cap. 91);

(c)

any professional disciplinary body;

(d)

any arbitral tribunal as defined in section 2(1) of the Arbitration Act (Cap. 10) or section 2(1) of the International Arbitration Act (Cap. 143A);

“unauthorised person” has the same meaning as in section 32(2) of the Act.