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Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2019

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019

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No. 28 of 2019
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An Act to amend the Legal Practitioners Act 2019

Certified: 28^th November 2019

Table of Contents

1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment of the Legal Practitioners Act 2019
4 Amendment of Section 4
5 Amendment of Section 20

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2019.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on certification of the Speaker.

3 Amendment of the Legal Practitioners Act 2019

The Legal Practitioners Act 2019 is amended by the provisions of this Act.

4 Amendment of Section 4

Section 4 is amended by deleting and substituting the meaning for ‘President’ as follows:

‘President’ means the President of the Law Society who shall be a legal practitioner duly admitted to practice law in the Republic;

5 Amendment of Section 20

Section 20(1) is deleted and substituted as follows:

The clause now reads:

‘(1) A practitioner shall not commence practice under his or her own name or a business name:

(a) without any supervision unless he or she has practiced for a minimum period of 3 years after admission to the Supreme Court; and

(b) has practiced under the supervision of a practitioner having practiced for not less than 3 years in the Republic or elsewhere.’