Section 2, The Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 2004.

Sections 36 and 37 of the principal Act are hereby repealedand replaced by the following sections:– “36. (1) After holding an inquiry into a disciplinary case, the Disciplinary Committee shall submit a report of the inquiry to the Council in which it shall state whether the allegations inquired into have been proved, and if it so states, it shall recommend to the Council to take any of the following disciplinary measures against the legal practitioner:– (a) to have his name deleted from the Roll of Court; or (b) to suspend him from practising as a legal practitioner for such a period as it thinks fit; or (c) to impose a fine not exceeding one million leones, as it thinks fit, recoverable by the Secretary in the High Court as a civil debt; or (d) to censure him: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Council, in the case of a legal practitioner who has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty – (a) to suspend him from practice while he pursues an appeal against such conviction, if any; and (b) to delete his name from the Roll of Court after he has exhausted his right of appeal against such conviction, if any. (2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), the Disciplinary Committee may, after the inquiry, make such order as to cost as it thinks fit. (3) The Council may, if it thinks fit, postpone either indefinitely or for a specified period, the making of its decision whether to take the disciplinary measures recommended by the Disciplinary Committee under subsection (1). 6 7 Section 15 of Act No.15 of 2000 replaced. Sections 36 and 37 of Act No. 15 of replaced. Disciplinary measures. No. 13 Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2004