Section 3A Legal Practitioners Act

Section 3A of Legal Practitioners Act 1975 is about Power to accept Gifts. It is under ‘Practice as a Legal Practitioner‘ of the sections of the Act. It provides as follows:

1. The Body of Benchers may accept gifts of money or movable or immoveable property upon such terms and conditions, if any, as may be specified by the person or organization making the gift.

2. The Body of Benchers shall not accept any gift if the conditions attached thereto by the person or organisation making the gift to the acceptance thereof are inconsistent with or inimical to the functions of the Body of Benchers.

3. The Body of Benchers may, subject to any trust created in respect of any property, invest its funds including any of its surplus funds in any securities as may be approved by the Body of Bencher.