The Advocates Act `1961
An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the legal practitioners and to provide for the constitution of Bar Councils and an All-India Bar.
List of Chapters & Sections
PRELIMINARY
BAR COUNCILS
- 3State Bar Councils
- 4Bar Council of India
- 5Bar Council to be body corporate
- 6Functions of State Bar Councils
- 7Functions of Bar Council of India
- 7AMembership in international bodies
- 8Term of office of members of State Bar Council
- 8AConstitution of special Committee in the absence of election
- 9Disciplinary committees
- 9AConstitution of legal aid committees
- 10Constitution of committees other than disciplinary committees
- 10ATransaction of business by Bar Councils and committees thereof
- 10BDisqualification of members of Bar Council
- 11Staff of Bar Council
- 12Accounts and audit
- 13Vacancies in Bar Council and committees thereof not to invalidate action taken
- 14Election to Bar Councils not to be questioned on certain grounds
- 15Power to make rules
ADMISSION AND ENROLMENT OF ADVOCATES
- 16Senior and other advocates
- 17State Bar Councils to maintain roll of advocates
- 18Transfer of name from one State roll to another
- 19State Bar Councils to send copies of rolls of advocates to the Bar Council of India
- 20Special provision for enrolment of certain Supreme Court advocates
- 21Disputes regarding seniority
- 22Certificate of enrolment
- 23Right of pre-audience
- 24Persons who may be admitted as advocates on a State roll
- 24ADisqualification for enrolment
- 25Authority to whom applications for enrolment may be made
- 26Disposal of applications for admission as an advocate
- 26APower to remove names from roll
- 27Application once refused not to be entertained by another Bar Council except in certain circumstances
- 28Power to make rules
RIGHT TO PRACTISE
CONDUCT OF ADVOCATES
- 35Punishment of advocates for misconduct
- 36Disciplinary powers of Bar Council of India
- 36AChanges in constitution of disciplinary committees
- 36BDisposal of disciplinary proceedings
- 37Appeal to the Bar Council of India
- 38Appeal to the Supreme Court
- 39Application of sections 5 and 12 of Limitation Act, 1963
- 40Stay of order
- 41Alteration in roll of advocates
- 42Powers of disciplinary committee
- 42APowers of Bar Council of India and other committees
- 43Cost of proceedings before a disciplinary committees
- 44Review of orders by disciplinary committee
MISCELLANEOUS
- 45Penalty for persons illegally practising in courts and before other authorities
- 46[Repealed.]
- 46AFinancial assistance to State Bar Council
- 47Reciprocity
- 48Indemnity against legal proceedings
- 48APower of revision
- 48AAReview
- 48BPower to give directions
- 49General power of the Bar Council of India to make rules
- 49APower of Central Government to make rules
- 50Repeal of certain enactments
- 51Rule of construction
- 52Saving
TEMPORARY AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
- 53Elections to first State Bar Council
- 54Term of office of members of first State Bar Councils
- 55Rights of certain existing legal practitioners not affected
- 56Dissolution of existing Bar Councils
- 57Power to make rules pending the constitution of a Bar Council
- 58Special provisions during the transitional period
- 58ASpecial provisions with respect to certain advocates
- 58AASpecial provisions in relation to the Union territory of Pondicherry
- 58ABSpecial provisions with respect to certain persons enrolled by Mysore State Bar Council
- 58ACSpecial provisions with respect to certain persons enrolled by Uttar Pradesh State Bar Council
- 58ADSpecial provisions with respect to certain persons migrating to India
- 58AESpecial provisions in relation to the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu
- 58AFSpecial provisions in relation to Jammu and Kashmir
- 58AGSpecial provisions in relation to articled clerks
- 58BSpecial provision relating to certain disciplinary proceedings
- 59Removal of difficulties
- 60Power of Central Government to make rules