Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 142

142. Substituted vide Notification of the Pakistan Bar Council dated 16-11-2015 Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976 93

(d)an affidavit stating fully, truly and accurately if any criminal proceedings or proceedings for professional or other misconduct were instituted against him in any country and if so with what result;

(e)receipts of payment of prescribed enrolment fees to the Pakistan and Provincial Bar Council;

(f)an undertaking that he would become a member of a Bar Association within six months after his enrolment;

(g)list of at least 10 cases in which he has assisted his senior, duly signed by the senior giving the nature of each case;

(h)six attested copies of his passport size photograph;

(i)an affidavit stating as to what the applicant was doing during the period of gap, if there was a considerable gap, in between his academic examinations and the application for enrolment;

(j)a character and good conduct certificate from the employer if he had been in service anywhere;

(k)a certificate of training from the senior in form 'B' prescribed by the Provincial Bar Council. 143[(l) Certificate/Result Card issued by the National Testing Service (NTS) or any other authority duly notified by the Pakistan Bar Council, as to applicant’s having passed the Assessment Test. The National Testing Service (NTS) shall hold the Assessment Test 144[thrice] in a year.] Explanation.--The date of birth recorded in the University or Board of Secondary Education from which the applicant secured his Matriculation Certificate shall be presumed to be correct but the Bar Council may for the reasons to be recorded determine otherwise. 145[108C. (1) Every apprentice (except a person mentioned in Rule 108-I infra) shall, before being admitted as an Advocate, have to undergo a comprehensive training regularly for a continuous period of six months as a pupil in the chamber of an advocate, who has been entitled to practice as an Advocate for a period of not less than ten years: 146{Provided that before commencing the pupilage and filing intimation to the Provincial Bar Council concerned 147[or the Islamabad Bar Counicl] the applicant must undertake and pass an Assessment Test as mentioned in Rule 108B(l). The applicant may apply to the National Testing Service

(NTS)or any other authority duly notified by the Pakistan Bar Council, to appear in the Assessment Test after passing the LL.B. examination and will be afforded [five] chances to qualify the Assessment Test.} 148[Provided further that an apprentice would commence his apprenticeship with such Advocate after having passed his LL.B. final examination and Assessment Test of National Testing Service (NTS) and shall furnish copies of his LL.B. degree or result card and the Certificate from the National Testing Service (NTS) as to his having passed the LL.B. final examination and the Assessment Test.] 148a[(1A) Every person/apprentice who did not possess LL.B. degree but have obtained Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) & LL.M. degree from Foreign University recognized by the Pakistan Bar Council and Pakistan Bar Council has issued equivalency for that diploma & degree to that of LL.B.