Section 18
Qualifications to practise
(1)
Subject as hereinafter provided, no person shall practise as an advocate and solicitor or do any act as an advocate and solicitor unless —
(a)
his name is on the roll;
(b)
he has a valid practising certificate; and
(c)
he or the firm of advocates and solicitors of which he is a member or the advocate and solicitor or firm of advocates and solicitors by which he is employed maintains a place of business in
Brunei Darussalam suitable for the carrying on of the practice of an advocate and solicitor or a firm of advocates and solicitors, as the case may be,
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and a person who is not so qualified is in this Act referred to as an
“unauthorised person”.
(2)
The Government or an approved legal department, as that expression is defined in section 14, shall for the purpose of this section be deemed to be a place of business in Brunei Darussalam suitable for the carrying on of the practice of an advocate and solicitor.
(3)
Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent a legal officer from performing any of his duties without holding a practising certificate or to make a legal officer who has no valid practising certificate an unauthorised person.