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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Advocate Act, 1961 Section 9

Disciplinary Committees

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Advocate Act, 1961 Section 9 is part of Advocate Act, 1961 - Disciplinary Committees. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) A Bar Council shall constitute one or more disciplinary committees, each of which shall consist of three persons of whom two shall be persons elected by the council from amongst its members and the other shall be a person co-opted by the Council from amongst advocates who possess the qualifications specified in the proviso to sub-section (2) of Section 3 and who are not members of the Council, and the senior-most advocate amongst the members of a disciplinary committee shall be the Chairman thereof.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), any disciplinary committee constituted prior to the commencement of the Advocates (Amendment) Act, 1964,(21 of 1964) may dispose of the proceeding pending before it as if this section had not been amended by the said Act.

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