Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 — section 34

34. Payment of fees..—(1) The Pakistan Bar Council may prescribe the following fees, namely

(a)fee for enrolment as an advocate or an Advocate of the High Court, which shall be fixed after consultation with the High Court, to be paid to the Provincial Bar Council [and Islamabad Bar Council] [and the Pakistan Bar Council in accordance with sub-section (2) of Section 17]; [(b) fee for enrolment as an advocate of the Supreme Court which shall be fixed after consultation with the Supreme Court, to be paid to the Pakistan Bar Council; and]

(c)annual fee payable by advocates to the Bar Council on whose roll their names are entered: Provided that no person whose name is entered on the roll under clause (a) of Section 25, clause (a) of Section 24 [or clause (a) of Section 23] as an advocate, an advocate of the High Court [or an advocate of the Supreme Court] shall be required to pay the fee for enrolment as such advocate.

(2)The fee referred to in clause (a) [or clause (b)] of sub-section (1) may be paid in such instalments, if any, as may be prescribed.

(3)The annual fee referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1) shall be paid by such date as may be prescribed.

(4)If an advocate fails to pay an instalment of fee or the annual fee payable by him by the prescribed date he shall be liable to pay such further fee for late payment as may be prescribed: Provided that, if he fails to pay such instalment of fee within a period of six months following the date on which it becomes due, he shall by notice be asked to show cause why his name be not struck off the roll of advocates and if the explanation is unsatisfactory his name shall be struck off the roll of advocate and shall be not restored except upon payment of the installment or fee due and such penalty not exceeding the amount of such installment or fee as may be prescribed, unless the enrolment Committee, having regard to the circumstances of the case, exempts any person from the payment of such penalty.