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159Q PDFTitle:OVERSEAS LAWYERS (QUALIFICATION FOR ADMISSION) RULESGazette Number:
Section:8Heading:Persons admitted in more than one jurisdictionVersion Date:30/06/1997

Where a person is an overseas lawyer for the purpose of these Rules in respect of more than one jurisdiction, then-

        (a) subject to paragraph (b), the jurisdiction in which he was first admitted shall be his jurisdiction of admission for the purpose of these Rules;
        (b) if the person has had not less than 3 years post-admission experience in the practice of the law of any such jurisdiction, he may elect to treat that jurisdiction as his jurisdiction of admission.
(Enacted 1994)