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 19/09/2008.
9. Section 27B of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:
“(1) Subject to subsection (1A), upon an application to a Judge by the Attorney-General or the Council, or on the hearing by a Judge of an application made under section 27A, the Judge may —
(a)
where the Judge is satisfied that cause of sufficient gravity for disciplinary action against a solicitor exists —
(i)
request the Society under section 85(3)(b) to refer the matter to a Disciplinary Tribunal unless the matter had been or is being dealt with under Part VII or is to be dealt with under section 94A; and
(ii)
order that the solicitor’s current practising certificate be suspended; or
(b)
order that a solicitor’s current practising certificate be suspended, if —
(i)
the solicitor’s fitness to practise has been determined under section 25C to be impaired by reason of the solicitor’s physical or mental condition;
(ii)
the solicitor, having been ordered by a Judge to submit to a medical examination under section 25C to be conducted within such period as the Judge may specify in the order, fails to do so; or
(iii)
the Judge is satisfied that the solicitor is incapacitated by illness or accident, or by the solicitor’s physical or mental condition, to such extent as to be unable to attend to the solicitor’s practice.
(1A) The Council shall not be entitled to make an application under subsection (1) in relation to a solicitor without the consent of the Attorney-General, if the solicitor —
(a)
is registered by the Attorney-General under section 130N to practise Singapore law in a Joint Law Venture or its constituent foreign law practice, a Qualifying Foreign Law Practice or a licensed foreign law practice;
(b)
does not practise in any Singapore law practice; and
(c)
undertakes not to practise in any Singapore law practice while his practising certificate remains in force.”;
(b)
by inserting, immediately after the word “If” in subsection (4), the words “, in a case where a Judge has made an order under subsection (1)(a)(ii) suspending a solicitor’s current practising certificate”;
(c)
by deleting the words “Disciplinary Committee” in subsection (4)(a) and in the section heading and substituting in each case the words “Disciplinary Tribunal”;
(d)
by deleting paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (4) and substituting the following paragraphs:
“(b)
the application made against the solicitor under section 98(1) is withdrawn or dismissed; or
(c)
an order has been made under section 98 that the solicitor be struck off the roll, suspended from practice or censured, or that the solicitor pay a penalty,”; and
(e)
by deleting the words “to make a final order pursuant to an order to show cause under section 98” in subsection (5) and substituting the words “under section 98(1)”.