Admission of Advocates Amendment Act 60 of 1984

Admission of Advocates Amendment Act, 1984 (No. 60 of 1984)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: 
__ Words underlined·with solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

Act

• to amend the Admission of Advocates Act, 1964, so as to further regulate the admission of persons to practise as advocates, the suspension of advocates from practice and the removal of their names from the roll of advocates; and
• to provide for in cidental matters.

(Afrikaans text signed by the Stt:ite President.)
(Assented to 19 April 1984.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 3 of Act 74 of 1964, as amended by section 1 of Act 73 of 1965, section 16 of Act 29 of 1974 and section 1 of Act 39 of 1977.

1. Section 3 of the Admission of Advocates Act, 1964 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended-

(a) by the addition to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the word "or"; and 

(b) by the addition to paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the following subparagraph: 

"(iii) has satisfied all the re uirements for a de ree or degrees of a university in a country which has been designated by the Minister, after consultation with the General Council of the Bar of South Africa, by notice in the Gazette, and in respect of which a university in the Republic with a faculty of law has certified that the syllabus and standard of instruction are equal or superior to those required for the degree of baccalaureus legum of a university in the Republic: Provided that- 

(aa) the syllabus for the said degree or one of the said degrees requires ·that the person concerned shall pass not less than one course in the Afrikaans language, not less than one course in the English language and not less than one course in the Latin language; or

(bb) such person has passed not less than one course in the Afrikaans language, not less than one course in the English language and not less than one course in the Latin language prescribed or recognized by a university in the Republic for a baccalaureus degree.".

Amendment of section 7 of Act 74 of 1964, as amended by section 2 of Act 73 of 1965.

2. Section 7 of the principal Act is hereby amended- 

(a) by the substitution for subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of the following subparagraph:

"(ii) in the case of a person who is not a South African citizen, other than a person contemplated in subparagraph (iii), if he has failed to obtain a certificate of naturalization in terms of the South African Citizenship Act, 1949 (Act No. 44 of 1949), within a period of six years from the date upon which before or after the commencement of this subparagraph he was admitted to the Republic for permanent residence therein or within such further period as the court either before or· after the expiration of the said period for good cause may allow; or"; and 

(b) by the addition to paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of the following subparagraph:

"(iii) in the case of a erson who is not a South African citizen but who is a citizen of a state the territory of which formerly formed part of the Republic, if he has ceased to belong to a category of persons or to comply with conditions determined by the Minster, after consultation with the General Council of the Bar of South Africa, by notice in the Gazette; or".

Short title.

3. This Act shall be called the Admission of Advocates Amendment Act, 1984.

Commencement

2 May 1984