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Section 53: Power to enrol advocates, etc.

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956Central Act · Act 37 of 1956

(1) The High Court for a new State shall have the like powers to approve, admit, enrol, remove and suspend advocates and attorneys, and to make rules with respect to advocates and attorneys as are, under the law in force immediately before the appointed day, exercisable by the High Court for the corresponding State.

(2) The right of audience in the High Court for a new State shall be regulated in accordance with the like principles as, immediately before the appointed day, are in force with respect to the right of audience in the High Court for the corresponding State:

Provided that, subject to any rule made or direction given by the High Court for a new State in exercise of the power conferred by this section, any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is an advocate entitled to practise, or an attorney entitled to act in any such High Court or Judicial Commissioner's Court as may be specified in this behalf by the Chief Justice of the High Court for the new State, shall be recognised as an advocate or an attorney entitled to practise or to act, as the case may be, in the High Court for the new State.

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ActThe States Reorganisation Act, 1956
Section53
Marginal notePower to enrol advocates, etc.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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