Mutual Recognition of Qualifications of Legal Profession

L.N. 55 of 2004

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Mutual Recognition of Qualifications of Legal Profession

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 81A and 87A of

the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, the Minister for

Justice and Home Affairs has made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Mutual Recognition of

Qualifications of Legal Profession (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

and they shall be read and construed as one with the Mutual

Recognition of Qualifications of Legal Profession Regulations, 2004,

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Amends regulation

For sub-regulation (2) of regulation 1 of the principal

regulations there shall be substituted the following>–

“(2)

These regulations shall come into force on the 1st May,

2004.”.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 11 of the principal

Amends regulation

regulations, for the words “within four months of receipt of all the

relevant documents” there shall be substituted the words “provided

that such consideration shall be limited to an evaluation of the

applicant’s qualifications”.

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