The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 24] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1966/JYAISTHA 14, 1888
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MINISTRY OF LAW (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 14th June, 1966/Jyaistha 24, 1888 (Saka} THE ADVOCATES (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1966
No. 5 OF 1966
Promulgated by the President in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India.
An Ordinance further to amend the Advocates Act, 1961.
WHERKAS Parliament is not in session and the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action;
Now, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 123 of the Constitution, the President is pleased to promul- gate the following Ordinance:—
1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Advocates (Amendment)
232 THE CJAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PAW II—Sic, 1]Act 25 of
1961 to be
temporarily
amended.
2. During the period of operation of this Ordinance, the Advocates Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), shall hava effect subject to the amendments specified in this Ordinance.
Amendment
of section 8.
3. For section 8 of the principal Act, the following section shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, substituted, namely :—
Term of
office of
memben of
State Bar
Council.
"8. (1) The term of office of an elected member of a State Bar Council (re-constituted on the expiry of the term of office of the elected members at the State Bar Council under section B4) shall be four years from the date of publication of the re"ult of his election.
(2) An outgoing member shall continue in office until the publication of the result of the election of his successor.".
4. In section 15 of the principal Act, clause (e) of sub-section (2) Amendment of •ectlon 15. shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, omitted.
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provision. 5. Where before the commencement of this Ordinance any mem- ber of a State Bar Council has retired under section 8 of the principal Act, such member shall be deemed never to have retired and shall continue to hold office for a period of four years from the date of publication of the result of his election as a member of the State Bar Council (re-constituted on the expiry of the term of office of the elected members of the State Bar Council under section 54) and accordingly no act of the State Bar Council or any Committee thereof shall be called hi question on the ground merely that such member having ceased to be a member of the State Bar Council on such retirement sat or voted or otherwise took part in the proceed- ings of the Council or the Committee thereof.
S. RADHAKRISHNAN,
Pretident.
S. P. SEN-VARMA, Secy, to the Govt, of India.