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The Advocates Act, 1961

§29Advocates to be the only recognised class of persons entitled to practise law

Subject to the provisions of this Act and any rules made thereunder, there shall, as from the appointed day, be only one class of persons entitled to practise the profession of law, namely, advocates.

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