(1) If, after
considering an application for admission to the legal profession, the Board
considers that —
(i)
eligible for admission; and
(ii)
a fit and proper person to be admitted;
and
(b) the
application is in accordance with the admission rules; and
(c)
there are no grounds for refusing to give a certificate of the matters
mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) (a "compliance certificate” ),
the Board must, within
the time specified in or determined in accordance with the admission rules,
advise the Supreme Court to that effect by filing a compliance certificate.
(2) If the Board
refuses to give a compliance certificate to an applicant, the Board must,
within the time specified in or determined in accordance with the admission
rules, give the Supreme Court and the applicant an information notice about
the refusal.
(3) An applicant may
apply to the State Administrative Tribunal for a review of a decision of the
Board to refuse to give the applicant a compliance certificate.
(4) The Board is taken
to have refused to give a compliance certificate if a compliance certificate
has neither been given to the applicant nor refused within 6 months
after —
(a) if
the Board has given the applicant a notice under section 32 —
the applicant has complied with the notice to the Board’s satisfaction;
or
(b) if
paragraph (a) does not apply — the application for admission
was lodged.