BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA RULES

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(i) on an application for the purpose, the State Council accords its permission;

(ii) a notice thereof is thereafter affixed on the notice board of the State Council

and published in the local gazette in one issue or in local English newspaper

as the State Council may specify and

(iii) the applicant defrays all the necessary costs thereof.

(c) Every State Council shall forthwith communicate to the Council, the change if

any in the name of any advocate on its rolls.

24. (a) When the name of an advocate is removed from the rolls, or an advocate is suspended from practice or otherwise punished under an order of any Disciplinary Committee or an order of the Supreme Court under section 38 or when an intimation of voluntary suspension from practice is received from the advocate, the State Bar Council in respect of a person in its roll and the Council in respect of a person whose name is not in any State Roll, shall furnish information thereof giving the name of the advocate, his roll number and date of enrolment, his address, nature of the punishment inflicted­

i) to the Registrar of the High Court of the State;

(ii) to the Registrar of the Supreme Court of India;

(iii) to the Bar Association in the High Court;

(iv) to the District Court of the State, and

(v) to such other authorities as the State Council or the Council may direct.

(b) The State Bar Councils and the Bar Council of India will also cause to be published in the State Gazettes or the Gazette of the Government of India as the case may be, information relating to the removal from the roll or the suspension of an advocate for misconduct.

RULES MADE BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT UNDER SECTION 49A OF THE ADVOCATES ACT, 1961

RE: RIGHT OF PRACTISING ADVOCATES TO TAKE UP LAW TEACHING

Government of India Ministry of Law, Justice & Company Affairs, Department of

Legal Affairs.

NOTIFICATION

G.S.R. : In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 49A of THE ADVOCATES ACT, 1961 (25 of 1961), the Central Government hereby make the following rules namely:­1. Short title and commencement:

              (1) These rules may be called the Advocates (Right to take up Law teaching)

                      Rules, 1979.

              (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official

                      Gazette.

2. Definitions

          In these rules, 11 Act" means THE ADVOCATES ACT, 1961 (25 of 1961).

3. Right of practising Advocate to take up law teaching

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any rule made under me Act, an advocate may, while practising, take up teaching of law in any educational institution which is affiliated to a University within the meaning of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), so long as the hours during which he is so engaged in the teaching of law do not exceed three hours in a day.

(2) When any advocate is employed in any such educational institution for the teaching of law, such employment shall, if the hours during which he is so engaged in the teaching of law do not exceed hours, be deemed, for the purposes of the Act and the