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BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA RULES, 1975

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    (2) A true copy of the order shall be filed along with the application.

    (3) If the application for review received is in order, the Council may direct the issue of notice to the petitioner and such other person as it may consider necessary.

    (4) A copy of the order on .the review application shall be sent free of charge to the petitioner and the other party if any.

    (5) Save as otherwise directed, the parties to whom notice has been issued may appear in person or by advocate or through authorized agent and if any of the parties fail to appear pursuant to the notice issued on any date of hearing, the Council may dispose of the application in such manner as it may think fit.

    2. The procedure prescribed in the above rules in this Chapter shall apply to the extent to which they are applicable when the Council acts of its own motion.

CHAPTER XI
ORDERS OF THE BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA

    1. Every decision of the Council under the proviso to Section 26(1) or under Section 48A or under any other provisions of the Act shall be signed by the Chairman of the meeting at which the said decision was taken or if so authorized by any other member or the Secretary on behalf of the Council.

    2. The Secretary shall send to the party or parties concerned a copy of the order free of charges.

CERTAIN MATTERS RELATING TO STATE COUNCIL
CHAPTER I
ELECTORAL ROLL, DISQUALIFICATION OF MEMBERSHIP AND VACATION OF OFFICE
(Rules under Sections 3(4),10 B, 15(2)(a) and 49 (l)(a) and (ab) of the Act)

    1. Every advocate whose name is on the Electoral Roll of the State Council shall be entitled to vote at an election.

    2. The name of an advocate appearing in the State Roll shall not be on the Electoral roll, if on information received or obtained by the State Bar Council concerned on the basis of which it is satisfied that:

      1. Every advocate whose name is on the Electoral Roll of the State Council shall be entitled to vote at an election.

      2. The name of an advocate appearing in the State Roll shall not be on the Electoral roll, if on information received or obtained by the State Bar Council concerned on the basis of which it is satisfied that:

        (a) his name has at any time been removed;

        (b) he has been suspended from practice, provided that his disqualification shall operate only for a period of five years from the date of the expiry of the period of suspension;

        (c) he is an undercharged insolvent;

        (d) he has been found guilty of an election offence in regard to an election to the State Council by an election tribunal, provided however, that such disqualification shall not operate beyond the election next following after such finding has been made;

        (e) he is convicted by a competent court for an offence involving moral turpitude, provided that this disqualification shall cease to have effect after a period of two years has elapsed since his release;

        (f) he is in full-time service or is in such part-time business or other vocation not permitted in the case of practising advocates by the rules either of the State Council concerned or the Council;

        (g) he has intimated voluntary suspension of practice and has not given intimation of resumption of practice.


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