s.13Operational licence fee
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Section 13Part —

Operational licence fee

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Every firm engaged in the practice of law which employs six or more attorneys-at-law (including the partners of the firm) and every recognised body regulated under the Legal Practitioners (Incorporated Practice) Regulations (2006 Revision) which employs six or more attorneys-at-law shall pay to the Clerk of Court the annual operational licence fee specified in Schedule 4.
The Clerk of Court shall issue to each firm and recognised body to which this section applies, on payment of the annual operational licence fee prescribed by subsection (1), an annual operational licence in the form prescribed in Schedule 5.
Where a firm to which this section applies engages or attempts to engage in the practice of law, without being in possession of a current operational licence issued under subsection (2), the partners thereof are liable to suspension under section 7(1).
Where a recognised body to which this section applies carries on business or attempts to carry on business as a recognised body without being in possession of a current operational licence issued under subsection (2), that recognised body is liable to suspension and revocation of recognition as specified under regulation 11 of the Legal Practitioners (Incorporated Practice) Regulations (2006 Revision).

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