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Practicing without Certificate
Cap. 320, s. 13 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) An attorney-at-law who, after the month of January in any year practices law without first obtaining a Practicing 14 Certificate is liable to pay a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
(2) If such attorney shall, after a fine has been imposed upon him, continue to practice law, he is liable to pay a further fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for every day on which he continues to practice.
(3) The Registrar shall make a complaint to the Chief Justice against any attorney who contravenes sub-section (1) and (2),
and the Chief Justice may, on finding that the attorney has incurred liability to the fine, impose it or any portion as he thinks fit.
(4) Every complaint shall be in writing and a copy, together with a notice of the time and place of the hearing, be delivered to the attorney complained against, who shall be entitled to be heard.
(5) Any fine imposed under this section shall be recovered upon an order of the Chief Justice and be paid to the Registrar.
(6) Every such order may be enforced in like manner as orders by the court for the payment of money by attorneys are enforced.
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