(1) Any person aggrieved by an order of the Disciplinary Appeal.
Committee of the State Council made under section 20 or by an order of the State Council to admit a person as law clerk may, within ninety days of the date of the communication of the order to him, prefer an appeal to the State Government.
Conduct and discipline.
91 The West Bengal Law Clerks Act, 1997.
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Proceeding not to be invalid.
(Chapter V—Conduct of law clerk.—Sections 24-27.)
(2) The State Government shall form an Appellate Committee with persons who, for at least seven years, held a judicial post under the State Government or who, for at least seven years, have been practising advocate enrolled in the Bar Council of West Bengal constituted under section 3 of the Advocates Act, 1961.
(3) Every such appeal shall be heard by the Appellate Committee which may dismiss the appeal and uphold the order or reverse or alter, in any manner, the decision of the Disciplinary Committee of the State Council, as the case maybe, and such decision of the Appellate Committee shall be final:
Provided that the Appellate Committee shall not pass any order so as to prejudicially affect the person aggrieved without giving him a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
24. The Appellate Committee shall also hear and dispose of any proceeding which a Disciplinary Committee of the State Council fails to dispose of within a period of one year under section 19.