Long title

To amend the Attorneys Act, 1979, so as to replace the designation "articled clerk" with "candidate attorney"; to redefine "building society"; to define "trust account"; to make other provision relating to the engagement and service of candidate attorneys; to further regulate the admission and readmission of attorneys and the removal of attorneys from the roll; to change the name of the Attorneys, Notaries and Conveyancers Fidelity Guarantee Fund; to make further provision relating to the convening of meetings of the board of control of the said fund; to authorize the said board of control to appoint committees; to further regulate payments from the said fund; to extend the powers of the councils of law societies; to further regulate the keeping of a trust account by a practising practitioner; to increase various maximum fines; and to rectify certain incorrect or obsolete references; to amend the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944, so as to make other provision in relation to the appearance of candidate attorneys in magistrates' courts; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Table of contents

SECTION	TITLE
1.	Amendment of section 1 of Act 53 of 1979
2.	Substitution of section 3 of Act 53 of 1979...
3.	Amendment of section 5 of Act 53 of 1979
4.	Substitution of section 6 of Act 53 of 1979
5.	Substitution of section 7 of Act 53 of 1979...
6.	Substitution of section 8 of Act 53 of 1979...
7.	Substitution of section 9 of Act 53 of 1979
8.	Amendment of section 10 of Act 53 of 1979
9.	Amendment of section 11 of Act 53 of 1979...
10.	Amendment of section 13 of Act 53 of 1979...
11.	Amendment of section 15 of Act 53 of 1979...
12.	Amendment of section 22 of Act 53 of 1979...
13.	Substitution of heading to Chapter II of Act 53 of 1979
14.	Substitution of section 25 of Act 53 of 1979
15.	Substitution of section 26 of Act 53 of 1979...
16.	Amendment of section 27 of Act 53 of 1979
17.	Substitution of section 32 of Act 53 of 1979
18.	Insertion of section 34A in Act 53 of 1979
19.	Substitution of section 37 of Act 53 of 1979
20.	Amendment of section 45 of Act 53 of 1979...
21.	Amendment of section 49 of Act 53 of 1979
22.	Amendment of section 55 of Act 53 of 1979...
23.	Amendment of section 69 of Act 53 of 1979
24.	Amendment of section 71 of Act 53 of 1979
25.	Amendment of section 72 of Act 53 of 1979...
26.	Amendment of section 74 of Act 53 of 1979
27.	Amendment of section 77 of Act 53 of 1979...
28.	Substitution of section 78 of Act 53 of 1979...
29.	Amendment of section 81 of Act 53 of 1979...
30.	Amendment of section 83 of Act 53 of 1979...
31.	Amendment of section 86 of Act 53 of 1979
32.	Substitution of certain words in Act 53 of 1979
33.	Amendment of "Arrangement of Sections" in Act 53 of 1979
34.	Substitution of long title of Act 53 of 1979
35.	Substitution of section 21 of Act 32 of 1944...
36.	Short title and commencement

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