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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

ACT 166
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1976 [REPRINT - 2001]
Incorporating latest amendment - A1269/2006

An Act to consolidate the law relating to the legal profession in Malaysia.

BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Notes: 

All references to the “Supreme Court” shall be construed as references to the “Federal Court”.

All references to the “Lord President of the Supreme Court” shall be construed as references to the “Chief Justice of the Federal Court”.

[Act A885/1994:s.3 with effect from 24 June 1994]

Section 17(1) and 17(2) of the Am. Act A1269 reads as follows:

Validation [Act A1269]

(1) All acts and things done or purported to be done by the Bar Council, any State Bar Committee and any of its respective members and committees in relation to any decision taken or resolution passed at or subsequent to any annual general meeting of the Malaysian Bar or the State Bar convened pursuant to or under the powers of the principal Act prior to the date of coming into operation of this Act shall be deemed to have been validly and lawfully done notwithstanding that the meeting was held without a quorum present and that the principal Act did not, at the time the acts and things were done, contain the provisions inserted by this Act with respect to the adjournment of an annual general meeting of the Malaysian Bar and the State Bar and the requirement on quorum.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect any right conferred or relief obtained by any person by virtue of any decision of the court pronounced prior to the date of coming into operation of this Act.

Section 35 (1), 35(2) and 35(3) of the Am. Act A1269 reads as follows:

Savings and transitional [Act A1269]

(1) Where on the date of coming into operation of this Act appeals under section 103E were pending before the High Court or the Federal Court, as the case may be, the proceedings shall be continued under and in conformity with the provisions of section 103E as amended by this Act; but where on the date of coming into operation of this Act any appeal was in the course of being heard, or had been heard but no order or decision had been made on the appeal, the proceedings shall continue under the provisions of the principal Act applicable to those proceedings immediately before the date of coming into operation of this Act.

(2) Where on the date of coming into operation of this Act, disciplinary proceedings were pending before the Disciplinary Board, the proceedings shall continue under the provisions of the principal Act applicable to those proceedings immediately before the date of coming into operation of this Act and the Disciplinary Board may make such order or decision as it could have made under the authority vested in it under the principal Act immediately before the date of coming into operation of this Act.

(3) Any written application or complaint concerning the conduct of any advocate and solicitor or of any pupil referred to the Disciplinary Board before the date of coming into operation of this Act shall be dealt with under the provisions of the principal Act applicable to disciplinary proceedings immediately before the date of coming into operation of this Act.