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• Legal Profession 
• PART I Preliminary
  • 1 Short title
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Admission, Enrolment and Status
  • 3 Roll of Attorneys-at-law
  • 4 Existing Practitioners
  • 5 Admission to practise and enrolment
  • 6 Reciprocal admission
  • 7 Eligibility of non-citizen who has obtained prescribed qualifications, to be admitted as an attorney-at-law
  • 8 Saving of enactments restricting perons other than citizens of Barbados
  • 9 Oath of attorney-at-law
  • 10 Status of attorney-at-law
  • 11 Practising Certificate
  • 12 Unlawful practice and similar offences
• PART III Accounts
  • 13 Rules as to accounts and interest
  • 14 Relief to banks
  • 15 Dealings with clients’ accounts where improper conduct alleged
  • 16 Dealing with clients’ accounts on death of attorney-at-law practising on his own account
• PART IV Legal Education and Law Reporting
  • 17 Legal education, law reporting and qualifications to practise law
• PART V Discipline
  • 18 Disciplinary Committee
  • 19 Complaints to Committee
  • 20 Rules of procedure for Committee
  • 21 Report to Chief Justice
  • 22 Consideration of report of Committee by Court
  • 23 Saving of jurisdiction of courts
  • 24 Registrar to make entry of order in Roll and publish it in Official Gazette
  • 25 Bankruptcy
  • 26 Voluntary removal of name from Roll
  • 27 Restoration of name to Roll
  • 28 Offences
  • 29 Control of employment of certain clerks
  • 30 Appeals against orders of Disciplinary Committee
  • 31 Offences in connection with orders under section 29
• PART VI Costs
  • General
  • Recovery of Costs
  • Delivery and Taxation of Bills of Costs
• PART VII Compulsory Membership of Bar Association
  • 44 Compulsory membership of Bar Association
  • 45 Annual subscription to Bar Association
  • 46 Cessation and suspension of membership of Bar Association
• PART VIII Compensation Fund
  • 47 Establishment of Compensation Fund
  • 48 Administration of Fund
  • 49 Annual contribution to the Fund
  • 50 Compensation for loss due to dishonesty
  • 51 Compensation for loss in cases of hardship
  • 52 Savings and exceptions in respect of payments from Fund