On 24/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 24/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 24/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 01/06/2009.
130C.
—(1) One or more foreign law practices and one or more Singapore law practices may apply jointly for a Formal Law Alliance licence if they satisfy —
(a)
such conditions as may be prescribed; and
(b)
such conditions as the Attorney-General may think fit to impose in any particular case.
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(2) The Attorney-General may, after consulting such authorities as he thinks fit, grant or refuse an application under subsection (1).
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(3) An application under subsection (1) may be granted, and a Formal Law Alliance licence may be issued, subject to —
(a)
such conditions as may be prescribed; and
(b)
such conditions as the Attorney-General may think fit to impose in any particular case.
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(4) A Formal Law Alliance licence shall —
(a)
entitle the formation of a Formal Law Alliance by the law practices to which the licence has been issued (each referred to in this Part as a member of the Formal Law Alliance);
(b)
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Part IV, entitle the Formal Law Alliance, during the period of validity of the licence, to such privileges as may be prescribed or otherwise conferred by law; and
(c)
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Part IV, entitle each foreign law practice which is a member of the Formal Law Alliance, during the period of validity of the licence —
(i)
to practise Singapore law in, and only in, such areas of legal practice and in accordance with such terms and conditions as may be prescribed; and
(ii)
to such other privileges as may be prescribed or otherwise conferred by law.
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(5) A Formal Law Alliance or its members shall pay to the Attorney-General such licence fee at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed.
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(6) Without prejudice to the solicitor-client privilege that exists between —
(a)
a foreign law practice or Singapore law practice; and
(b)
its client, or a client of a Formal Law Alliance of which it is a member,
solicitor-client privilege exists between a Formal Law Alliance and its client in the same way as it exists between a solicitor and his client.
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(7) Except as may otherwise be prescribed, nothing in this Act shall prevent a foreign law practice which is a member of a Formal Law Alliance and a Singapore law practice which is a member of the Formal Law Alliance from sharing office premises, profits or client information with respect to the legal practice of the Formal Law Alliance.
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(8) A foreign law practice or Singapore law practice may be a joint applicant for more than one Formal Law Alliance licence.
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(9) An alliance formed by one or more foreign law practices and one or more Singapore law practices which, immediately before the relevant date, was registered as a Formal Law Alliance under the provisions of this section as in force immediately before the relevant date shall be deemed to be a Formal Law Alliance formed under this section, and the law practices forming such an alliance shall be deemed to have been issued a Formal Law Alliance licence subject to the conditions referred to in subsection (3)(a) and such conditions as the Attorney-General may think fit to impose in any particular case, with effect from the relevant date.
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