(1) There shall be issued a certificate of enrolment in the prescribed form by the State Council to every person whose name is entered in the roll.
Every person whose name is so entered in the roll shall notify any change of place of his permanent residence to the State Council within ninety days of such change.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, after the appointed day, a person shall be qualified to be admitted as a law clerk on the roll, if he fulfils the following conditions:—
(a) he is a citizen of India;
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(Chapter 11.—Preparation and maintenance of roll.—Sections 10-13.)
(b) he has, on the date of application, completed the age of eighteen years, but has not exceeded the age of forty years;
(c) he has passed the Madhyamik Examination of the Board of Secondary Education, West Bengal, or its equivalent examination;
(d) he has completed a period of probation for one year under a law clerk acting as such for not less than five years in any court in West Bengal under a licence granted by a competent authority;
(e) he fulfils such other conditions as may, on the recommendation of the State Council or otherwise, be specified by the State Government.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), any person, who has been a law clerk duly licensed under any law for the time being in force, may be admitted on the roll, if he makes, within one year from the appointed day, an application for such enrolment in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and pays to the State Council two hundred rupees as enrolment fee.
10. No person shall be admitted as a law clerk on the roll if he has been convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude:
Provided that the disqualification for enrolment as aforesaid shall cease to have effect after a period of three years has elapsed since such person has served the sentence.
Bar to enrolment.
11. An application for admission as a law clerk shall be made in the Application prescribed form to the State Council. for admission as law clerk.
12. Every application for admission as a law clerk shall be referred by Disposal of application the State Council to its Enrolment Committee and, subject to any direction for that may be given in writing by the State Council in this behalf, such admission as committee shall dispose of the application in the prescribed manner: law clerk.
Provided that the State Council may, if it is satisfied, either on a reference made to it in this behalf or otherwise, that any person has got his name entered on the roll by misrepresentation of any essential fact or by fraud or undue influence, remove the name of such person from the roll after giving him an opportunity of being. heard.
13. The State Council may remove from the roll the name of any law clerk on his death or on the request made in writing by a law clerk to remove his name.
Removal of name from roll.
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[West Ben. Act (Chapter 11.—Preparation and maintenance of roll.—Section 14.— Chapter Ill.—Issue of licence and renewal, cancellation or suspension of licence.—Section 15.)
Power to make rules.