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BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA RULES, 1975

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State Bar Council, the nature of the business is not inconsistent with the dignity of the profession.
       48. An Advocate may be Director or Chairman of the Board of Directors of a company with or without any ordinary sitting fee, provided none of his duties are of an executive character. An Advocate shall not be a Managing Director or a Secretary of any company.
       49. An Advocate shall not be a full-time salaried employee of any person, government, firm, corporation or concern, so long as he continues to practise, and shall, on taking up any such employment, intimate the fact to the Bar Council on whose roll his name appears, and shall thereupon cease to practice as an Advocate so long as he continues in such employment.
       Nothing in this rule shall apply to a Law Officer of the Central Government of a State or of any Public Corporation or body constituted by statute who is entitled to be enrolled under the rules of his State Bar Council made under Section 28(2)( d) read with Section 24(1)(e) of the Act despite his being a full time salaried employee.
       Law Officer for the purpose of this Rule means a person who is so designated by the terms of his appointment and who, by the said terms, is required to act and lor plead in Courts on behalf of his employer.
       50. An Advocate who has inherited, or succeeded by survivorship to, a family business may continue it, but may not personally participate in the management thereof. He may continue to hold a share with others in any business which has decended to him by survivorship or inheritance of by will, provided he does not personally participate in the management thereof.
       51. An Advocate may review Parliamentary Bills for a remuneration, edit legal text books at a salary, do press-vetting for newspapers, coach pupils for legal examination, set and examine question papers; and, subject to the rules against advertising and full-time employment, engage in broadcasting journalism, lecturing and teaching subjects, both legal and non-legal.
       52. Nothing in these rules shall prevent an Advocate from accepting, after obtaining the consent of the State Bar Council part-time employment provided that in the opinion of the State Bar Council the nature of the employment does note conflict with his professional work and is not inconsistent with the dignity of the profession. This rule shall be subject to such directives if any as may be issued by the Bar Council of India from time to time.

CHAPTER III
CONDITIONS FOR RIGHT TO PRACTICE
(Rules under Section 49(1)(ah) of the Act)

      1. Every Advocate shall be under an obligation to see that his name appears on the roll of the State Council within whose jurisdiction he ordinarily practices:
       PROVIDED that if an Advocate does not apply for transfer of his name to the roll of the State Bar Council within whose jurisdiction he is ordinarily practising within six months of the start of such practice, it shall be deemed that he is guilty of professional misconduct within the meaning of section 35 of the Advocates Act."
      2. An Advocate shall not enter into a partnership of any other arrangement for sharing remuneration with any person or legal Practitioner who is not an Advocate.
      3. Every Advocate shall keep informed the Bar Council on the roll of which his name stands, of every change of his address.

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