Section 10Part —
Unqualified persons not to prepare certain documents, etc.
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Subject to section 4, a person who, not being admitted to practise and enrolled as an attorney-at-law, or otherwise lawfully authorised, shall, either directly or indirectly, for, or in expectation of, any fee, gain or reward, draw or prepare any instrument relating to movable or immovable property or any legal proceeding, or shall receive any fee, gain or reward for drawing or preparing any such instrument or proceeding, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars.
Subsection (1) shall not extend to —
any public officer drawing or preparing instruments in the course of that public officer’s duty; or
any person employed merely to engross or copy any instrument or proceeding.
In this section, “instrument” does not include —
an agreement under hand only;
a letter or power of attorney; or
a transfer of stock containing no trust or limitation thereof.
Cross References
- Section 4 of Legal Practitioners Act
Reference in section 10(1)