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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 (NO. 21 OF 2008) - SECT 31

31 .         Compliance certificates

        (1)         If, after considering an application for admission to the legal profession, the Board considers that —

            (a)         the applicant is —

                  (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.



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