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On 25/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 25/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 25/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 06/03/2000.
THE SCHEDULE
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(1) Section 25(1)(a)(ii)
 
Insert, immediately after the word “solicitors” in the 3rd line, the words “or law corporation”.
(2) Section 32(3)
 
Insert, immediately after the words “the firm in which the master is a partner” in the 4th line, the words “or the law corporation in which the master is a director or an employee”.
(3) Sections 73(2)(a) and (b), (3) (d) and (4) (b) and 77(2) (2nd and 3rd lines)
 
Insert, immediately after the word “firm”, the words “or the law corporation”.
(4) Section 75
 
(i) Insert, immediately after the word “trustee” in the 5th line of subsection (9), the words “or any officer or employee of a law corporation in connection with legal services performed in Singapore by the law corporation”.
 
 
(ii) Insert, immediately after the word “practice” in the last line of subsection (10), the words “or the law corporation had wound up, as the case may be”.
(5) Sections 81(1) (3rd and 5th lines), 109(1) (4th line), (3) (2nd and 5th lines), (5) and (6) (2nd line) and 136(1) (2nd line) and (3) (2nd and 3rd lines)
 
Insert, immediately after the word “solicitor”, the words “or law corporation”.
(6) Section 108
 
(i) Insert, immediately after the word “solicitors” in the section heading the words “or law corporations”.
 
 
(ii) Insert, immediately after the word “solicitors” in subsections (2) (4th line) and (5), the words “or law corporations”.
 
 
(iii) Delete the words “solicitor from his” in subsection (4)(a) and substitute the words “solicitor or a law corporation from a”.
 
 
(iv) Insert, immediately after the word “him” in subsection (4)(a), the words “or the law corporation”.
(7) Section 110
 
(i) Insert, immediately after the word “member” in the 2nd line of subsection (1), the words “or the law corporation of which he is a member, director or an employee”.
 
 
(ii) Insert, immediately after the word “firm” in subsections (1) (2nd line) and (2) (4th line), the words “or the law corporation”.
 
 
(iii) Insert, immediately after the word “member” in the 4th line of subsection (2), the words “or by the law corporation of which he is a member, director or an employee,”.
(8) Section 111(1)
 
(i) Insert, immediately after the word “solicitor” in the 2nd line, the words “or a law corporation”.
 
 
(ii) Insert, immediately after the word “solicitor” in the 5th line, the words “or the law corporation”.
(9) Section 112
 
(i) Insert, immediately after the word “solicitor” in subsections (2) (4th line), (3) (2nd line), (4) and (5) (1st line), the words “or law corporation”.
 
 
(ii) Insert, immediately after the word “he” wherever it appears in subsection (5), the words “or law corporation”.
(10) Section 113
 
(i) Insert, immediately after the word “solicitor” in subsections (6) (penultimate line) and (9), the words “or law corporation”.
 
 
(ii) Insert, immediately after the word “him” in subsection (9), the words “or the law corporation”.
(11) Section 116
 
Delete the word “question.” and substitute the words “question, and unless the context otherwise requires, includes a law corporation.”.
(12) Section 118(2)
 
Insert, immediately after the word “partnership,” in the 4th line, the words “or, in the case of a law corporation, by a director of or by a solicitor employed by that law corporation,”.
(13) First Schedule —
 
 
Part I, new paragraphs 4A, 4B and 4C
 
Insert, immediately after paragraph 4, the following paragraphs:
4A.—(1)  Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where —
(a)
the Council is satisfied that a law corporation has failed to comply with any rules applicable to it by virtue of section 72;
(b)
a person has been appointed receiver or manager of property of a law corporation;
(c)
a winding up order, or an order for judicial management under the Companies Act (Cap. 50), has been made with respect to a law corporation or a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed with respect to a law corporation (other than a resolution passed solely for the purposes of its reconstruction or of its amalgamation with another company); or
(d)
the Council has reason to suspect dishonesty on the part of any officer or employee of a law corporation in connection with that law corporation’s business or in connection with any trust of which that body is or formerly was a trustee,
the powers conferred by Part II shall be exercisable in relation to the law corporation and its business in like manner as they are exercisable in relation to a solicitor and his practice.”.
 
 
“(2)  Those powers shall only be exercisable by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a) if the Society has given the law corporation notice in writing that the Council is satisfied that the law corporation has failed to comply with the rules specified in the notice and also (at the same or any later time) notice that those powers are accordingly exercisable in its case by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a).
4B.  The powers conferred by Part II shall also be exercisable as mentioned in paragraph 4A(1) where —
(a)
a complaint is made to the Society that there has been undue delay on the part of a law corporation in connection with any matter in which it was instructed on behalf of a client or with any controlled trust;
(b)
the Society by notice in writing invites the law corporation to give an explanation within a period of not less than 8 days specified in the notice;
(c)
the law corporation fails within that period to give an explanation which the Council regards as satisfactory; and
(d)
the Society gives notice of the failure to the law corporation and (at the same or any later time) notice that the powers conferred by Part II are accordingly exercisable.”.
 
 
4C.—(1)  Where the registration of a law corporation has been cancelled under section 81K, the powers conferred by Part II shall be exercisable in relation to the law corporation and its former business as a law corporation as they are exercisable in relation to a solicitor and his practice.
(2)  Where the powers conferred by Part II are exercisable in relation to a law corporation in accordance with paragraph 4A or 4B, they shall continue to be so exercisable after that law corporation’s registration has been cancelled or has otherwise ceased to be in force.
4D.  In connection with the application of Part II to a law corporation in that Part —
(a)
any reference to the solicitor or to his practice shall be construed as including a reference to the law corporation in relation to which the powers conferred by that Part are exercisable by virtue of paragraph 4A, 4B or 4C(1) or to its business (or former business) as a law corporation;
(b)
any reference to paragraph 1 shall be construed as including a reference to paragraph 4A or 4C(1); and
(c)
any reference to paragraph 3 shall be construed as including a reference to paragraph 4B.”.
(14) Second Schedule —
 
 
(a) Paragraphs 1(1) (4th line), 2(1)(d) and 9(1) (4th and 6th lines)
 
Insert, immediately after the words “his firm” the words “or the law corporation of which he is a director or an employee”.
(b) Paragraph 2(1)(a)
 
Insert, immediately after the word “solicitor”, the words “or the law corporation of which he is a director or an employee”.
(c) Paragraph 5(1)
 
Insert, immediately after the word “solicitor”, the words “or law corporation”.