The Advocates Act, 1961
ADV · 1961
Ch. I · PRELIMINARY
Ch. II · BAR COUNCILS
- §3State Bar Councils
- §4Bar Council of India
- §5Bar Council to be body corporate
- §6Functions of State Bar Councils
- §7Functions of Bar Council of India
- §7AMembership in international bodies
- §8Term of office of members of State Bar Council
- §8AConstitution of Special Committee in the absence of election
- §9Disciplinary committees
- §9AConstitution of legal aid committees
- §10Constitution of committees other than disciplinary committees
- §10ATransaction of business by Bar Councils and committees thereof
- §10BDisqualification of members of Bar Council
- §11Staff of Bar Council
- §12Accounts and Audit
- §13Vacancies in Bar Council and committees thereof not to invalidate action taken
- §14Election to Bar Councils not to be questioned on certain grounds
- §15Power to make rules
Ch. III · ADMISSION AND ENROLMENT OF ADVOCATES
- §16Senior and other advocates
- §17State Bar Councils to maintain roll of advocates
- §18Transfer of name from one State roll to another
- §19State Bar Councils to send copies of rolls of advocates to the Bar Council of India
- §20Special provision for enrolment of certain Supreme Court advocates
- §21Disputes regarding seniority
- §22Certificate of enrolment
- §23Right of pre-audience
- §24Persons who may be admitted as advocates on a State roll
- §24ADisqualification for enrolment
- §25Authority to whom applications for enrolment may be made
- §26Disposal of applications for admission as an advocate
- §26APower to remove names from roll
- §27Application once refused not to be entertained by another Bar Council except in certain circumstances
- §28Power to make rules
Ch. IV · RIGHT TO PRACTISE
Ch. V · CONDUCT OF ADVOCATES
- §35Punishment of advocates for misconduct
- §36Disciplinary powers of Bar Council of India
- §36AChanges in constitution of disciplinary committees
- §36BDisposal of disciplinary proceedings
- §37Appeal to the Bar Council of India
- §38Appeal to the Supreme Court
- §39Application of sections 5 and 12 of Limitation Act, 1963
- §40Stay of order
- §41Alteration in roll of advocates
- §42Powers of disciplinary committee
- §42APowers of Bar Council of India and other committees
- §43Cost of proceedings before a disciplinary committees
- §44Review of orders by disciplinary committee
Ch. VI · MISCELLANEOUS
- §45Penalty for persons illegally practising in courts and before other authorities
- §45APower to frame and publish lists of touts
- §46Payment of part of enrolment fees to the Bar Council of India
- §46AFinancial assistance to State Bar Council
- §47Reciprocity
- §48Indemnity against legal proceedings
- §48APower of revision
- §48AAReview
- §48BPower to give directions
- §49General power of the Bar Council of India to make rules
- §49APower of Central Government to make rules
- §50Repeal of certain enactments
- §51Rule of construction
- §52Saving
Ch. VII · TEMPORARY AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
- §53Elections to first State Bar Council
- §54Term of office of members of first State Bar Councils
- §55Rights of certain existing legal practitioners not affected
- §56Dissolution of existing Bar Councils
- §57Power to make rules pending the constitution of a Bar Council
- §58Special provisions during the transitional period
- §58ASpecial provisions with respect to certain advocates
- §58AASpecial provisions in relation to the Union territory of Pondicherry
- §58ABSpecial provisions with respect to certain persons enrolled by Mysore State Bar Council
- §58ACSpecial provisions with respect to certain persons enrolled by Uttar Pradesh State Bar Council
- §58ADSpecial provisions with respect to certain persons migrating to India
- §58AESpecial provisions in relation to the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu
- §58AFSpecial provisions in relation to Jammu and Kashmir
- §58AGSpecial provisions in relation to articled clerks
- §58BSpecial provision relating to certain disciplinary proceedings
- §59Removal of difficulties
- §60Power of Central Government to make rules