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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Advocate Act, 1961 Section 12

Accounts and Audit

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Advocate Act, 1961 Section 12 is part of Advocate Act, 1961 - Accounts and Audit. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1)Every Bar Council shall cause to be maintained such books of accounts and otherbooks in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed.

(2)The accounts of a Bar Council shall be audited by auditors duly qualified to actas auditors of companies under the Companies Act, 1956, (1 of 1956) at suchtimes and in such manner as may be prescribed.

1 [(3)As soon as may be practicable at the end of each financial year, but not laterthan the 31st day of December of the year next following, a State BarCouncil shall send a copy of its accounts together with a copy of the report ofthe auditors thereon to the Bar Council of India and shall cause the same to bepublished in the Official Gazette.

(4)As soon as may be practicable at the end of each financial year, but not laterthan the 31st day of December of the next following the Bar Councilof India shall send a copy of its accounts together with a copy of the report ofthe auditors thereon to the Central Government and shall cause the same to bepublished in the Gazette of India].

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1.Substituted by Act 60 of 1973, section 11.

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