In these Rulings, unless the context shall otherwise require:
| (a) | “Act” means the Legal Profession Act 1976 as amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time; | |
| (b) | “Advocate and Solicitor” and “Solicitor” shall have the meanings ascribed to those expressions in the Act; | |
| (c) | “Approved Publication” means a directory approved by the Bar Council under Ruling 5.09; | |
| (d) | “Charge” means an instrument of charge over land in a prescribed form under the National Land Code; | |
| (e) | “legal assistant” means an Advocate and Solicitor who is employed by a law firm; | |
| (f) | “pupil”, “pupillage” and “master” shall have the respective meanings ascribed to those expressions in the Act; | |
| (g) | “Rulings” means the Rules and Rulings of the Bar Council reproduced herein and as revised or replaced by the Bar Council from time to time; | |
| (h) | “Syariah Practitioner” means a person who is licensed by the relevant authority to practise syariah law and to appear in syariah courts in any state or states in Malaysia; | |
| (i) | “Transfer” means an instrument of transfer of land in the prescribed form under the National Land Code 1965; | |
| (j) | “Unauthorised Person” has the meaning ascribed to that expression in Section 36 of the Act; | |
| (k) | all references to an Advocate and Solicitor or a Solicitor include a law firm and vice versa; | |
| (l) | all references to a “firm” or a “law firm” mean a firm of Advocates and Solicitors whether a partnership or a sole proprietorship; | |
| (m) | all references to a “firm name” mean the name of a law firm; | |
| (n) | all references to a “partnership” mean a law firm which is or was a partnership at the relevant time and all references to a “partner” mean a partner of such partnership at the relevant time; | |
| (o) | all references to a “sole proprietorship” mean a law firm which is or was a sole proprietorship at the relevant time and all references to a “sole proprietor” mean the sole proprietor of such sole proprietorship at the relevant time; | |
| (p) | all references to the “Publicity Rules” or the “Etiquette Rules” are to the Legal Profession (Publicity) Rules 2001 and the Legal Profession (Practice and Etiquette) Rules 1978 respectively as amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time. All references to specific Publicity Rules or to specific Etiquette Rules are to the specific rules in the Publicity Rules and the Etiquette Rules respectively as amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time; | |
| (q) | all references to the Solicitors’ Remuneration Order are to the Solicitors’ Remuneration Order 1991* as amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time; | |
| (r) | any reference to any section of the Act includes any amendment to such section or replacement thereof in force at any particular time; | |
| (s) | the singular includes the plural and vice versa and a reference to one gender includes all genders; | |
| (t) | a reference to a specific Ruling is to the specific Ruling set out herein as amended or replaced by the Bar Council from time to time |
* Repealed and superseded by the Solicitors’ Remuneration Order 2005 – PU(A) 520/2005
(Updated as at 8 June 2015)