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Section 99: Professional bodies.
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(1) The President may, by constitutional instrument, make Regulations for the registration of professional bodies.
(2) Regulations made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding subsection shall provide—
a) for the recognition by the President of any such body as is registered;
b) that no person shall practise as a member of a profession unless he shall have registered pursuant to the
Regulations so made; and
c) for the right of a professional body so registered to promulgate rules and regulations governing the
admission, and the code of ethics, of its members compatible with its tradition
(3) The President shall, acting in accordance with the advice of a professional body recognised by him, establish by
constitutional instrument, the governing body of any such professional body which shall regulate and supervise the
practice of the profession concerned.
(4) For the purposes of this Section, the expression “professional body” includes a society, an institution, or groups
of persons, by whatever name called, the members of which are—
a) trained and qualified in a profession recognised as such; and,
b) united in a common interest for the purposes of pursuing research and other activities concerned with the
progress of knowledge in any such profession and for maintaining and advancing a code of ethics and
conduct among its members and generally for the maintenance of the highest standards compatible with the
ideals and principles of the profession concerned.
CHAPTER VI—THE JUDICIARY
P ART I—THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUDICATURE
Establishment of the
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