Government Gazette

Vol. 406, No. 20009, 23 April 1999

Regulation Gazette, No. 6513

No. R. 546

GOVERNMENT NOTICE

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

DETERMINATION OF PROFESSIONAL CONTROLLING BODY IN TERMS OF SECTION 1(vi)(b) AND DESIGNATION OF A BODY FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 5 OF THE CONTINGENCY FEES ACT, 1997

I, Abdulah Mohamed Omar, Minister of Justice -

  1. hereby determine in terms of section 1(vi) (b) of the Contingency Fees Act, 1997 (Act No. 66 of 1997), and for purposes of the said Act, as a professional controlling body in respect of an advocate, the bodies in the Schedule of which such an advocate is a member; and

  2. hereby designate in terms of section 5 of the said Act and for purposes of the said section, in the case of a legal practitioner who is not a member of a professional controlling body, the bodies in the Schedule in the area in which such a legal practitioner practice.

A. M. OMAR,
Minister of Justice.

SCHEDULE

Cape Bar Council
Eastern Cape Society of Advocates
Port Elizabeth Society of Advocates
Northern Cape Society of Advocates
Society of Advocates (Free State Division)
Society of Advocates of Natal
Society of Advocates of Natal (Pieterrnaritzburg Bar)
Society of Advocates of South Africa (Witwatersrand Division)
Society of Advocates (Transvaal Provincial Division)
Society of Advocates of Ciskei
North West Bar Association
Society of Advocates of Transkei
Independent Association of Advocates of South Africa