s.22Regulations to permit attorneys to form incorporated practices
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Section 22Part —

Regulations to permit attorneys to form incorporated practices

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The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council, may make regulations —
making provision as to the management and control by attorneys-at-law of bodies corporate carrying on businesses consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as attorneys-at-law;
prescribing the circumstances in which such bodies may be recognised by the Attorney General as being suitable bodies to undertake the provision of such services;
prescribing the conditions which (subject to any exceptions provided by the regulations) must, at all times, be satisfied by bodies corporate so recognised if they are to remain so recognised;
regulating the conduct of the affairs of recognised bodies and the names that such bodies may use;
for the suspension or revocation of the recognition of any recognised body granted under this section; and
to provide for any enactment or instrument passed or made before the 25th November, 1996 and having effect in relation to attorneys to have effect in relation to recognised bodies with such additions, omissions or other modifications as appear to the Cabinet to be necessary or expedient.
Section 10 shall not apply to a recognised body.
Section 10 shall not apply to any act done by an officer or employee of a recognised body if —
it was done by the officer or employee at the direction and under the supervision of another person who was, at the time, an officer or employee of the recognised body; and
it could have been done by that other person for, or in expectation of, any fee, gain or reward without committing an offence under section 10.
In this section — “recognised body” means a body corporate for the time being recognised under this section.

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recognised body

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