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The Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 2015.

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Preamble

Short title.
No. 2 2015
Sierra Leone
The Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 2015.
Being an Act to amend the Legal Practitioners Act, 2000.
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ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this
present Parliament assembled.
Date of commencement.
No. 2 The Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 20152 ACT
Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXLVI, No. 36
dated 6th August, 2015
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE.
GAZETTE NO. 36 OF 6TH AUGUST, 2015.

Section 1

The Legal Practitioners Act, 2000 is amended by the repeal andreplacement of section 10 by the following section:–
10. A person qualifies for admission as a legal practitioner if–
(a) the person is–
(i) the holder of a degree in law awarded by the
University of Sierra Leone, the University
of Makeni or any other University
established in Sierra Leone of such level as
the Council of Legal Education may
prescribe; or
(ii) the holder of a degree in law of a recognized
university or other institution of higher
learning of a Commonwealth country
approved by the Council of Legal Education;
or
(iii) the holder of any degree in law of a recognized
university or other institution of higher
learning of a country with a legal system
anologous to that of Sierra Leone approved
by the Council of Legal Education;
(b) has passed the appropriate professional
examinations conducted by the Council of Legal
Education and served a period of pupilage of not
less than twelve months with a legal practitioner
of at least ten years standing in Sierra Leone.

Section 2

This act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1stday of August, 2013”.
Amendment
of section 10
of Act No.15
of 2000. “Qualification for
admission
as legal
practitioner.
Commence
ment.
Passed in Parliament this 9th day of July , in the year of our Lord two
thousand and fifteen.
IBRAHIM S. SESAY,
Clerk of Parliament.
THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill
which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy
of the said Bill.
IBRAHIM S. SESAY,
Clerk of Parliament.
SIGNED this 30th day of July, 2015.
DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA,
President.
LS

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