Section 23 Legal Practitioners Act

Section 23 of Legal Practitioners Act 1975 is about Miscellaneous Supplementary Provisions. It is under ‘General.‘ of the sections of the Act. It provides as follows:

1. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to continue to maintain the roll of court kept immediately before the passing of the Legal Practitioners Act 1962 in pursuance of rule 5 of Order XVI of the Supreme Court (Civil Procedure) Rules; and in this Act “the roll” means the roll maintained in pursuance of this subsection.

2. The Association shall pay any sums received by it by virtue of section 8 of this Act into a separate fund which shall be used for the purposes of the Association; and it shall be the duty of the Association-

a. to keep proper accounts in respect of the fund and proper records in relation to the accounts; and
b. to cause the accounts to be audited in each year by an auditor approved, as respects that year, by the Auditor-General for the Federation; and

c. to cause a copy of the accounts and of the auditor’s report thereon to be sent to the Registrar and to each person by whom a practising fee has been paid in respect of the year in question in pursuance of the said section 8 of this Act.

3. In calculating for the purposes of this Act the period of a person’s standing as a legal practitioner, there shall be taken into account any period before the passing of the Legal Practitioners Act 1962 during which he was entitled by law to practise as a barrister and solicitor in any part of Nigeria.

4. Except as otherwise provided by or under this Act, any document authorised or required to be served by or under this Act may, without prejudice to any other means of service, be served by post in a registered letter. 5 Any application to a court or Judge in pursuance of this Act shall be made in the prescribed manner.