Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 173

173. Substituted by Notifications Dated 07-12-2020 100 Pakistan Legal Practitioners & Bar Councils Rules, 1976 174 [(c) Fee for enrolment as an Advocate of the High Court shall be Rs. 175[24000/-]. One-third of this enrolment fee, in terms of Section 17(2) of the Act, shall be deposited by the applicant with the Pakistan Bar Council and two third of the same shall be deposited by the applicant with the Provincial Bar Council [or the Islamabad Bar Council, as the case may be] at the time of making his application for enrolment]. 176[(cc) Except for the enrolment fees fixed as herein above under clauses (a) and (c), a Provincial and/or the Islamabad Bar Council shall not charge any amount of fee, on any nomenclature whatsoever, from an applicant for enrolment as an Advocate of lower Courts and that of the High Court during the process of his/her enrolment as an advocate and/or Advocate of High Court, right from the submission of his/her letter of intimation regarding commencement of six months training and/or submission of his/her application for enrolment as an Advocate of High Court, till he/she is granted enrolment as an Advocate and/or as an Advocate of the High Court, as the case may be.]

(d)A fee of Rs. 177[50,000/-] for enrolment as an Advocate of the Supreme Court shall be paid to the Pakistan Bar Council.

(e)A fee of Rs. 2000/- for enrolment as a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan shall be paid to the Pakistan Bar Council.

(f)If any applicant wants to pay the fee referred to above in installments, he may make an application in this behalf to the Enrolment Committee of the respective Bar Council who shall decide it and its decision shall be final.

(g)(i) The applicant shall deposit the one-third share of the Pakistan Bar Council under Rule 110(a) or 110(c) in the account of the Pakistan Bar Council and the balance two-third in the account of the Provincial Bar Council concerned [or the Islamabad Bar Council] directly.

(ii)The applicant shall send one copy of the deposit receipt of the aforesaid one-third share to the Pakistan Bar Council and another copy of this receipt will be attached with his application for enrolment to the Provincial Bar Council [or the Islamabad Bar Council, as the case may be,] together with the receipt showing the payment of two-third share of the Provincial Bar Council [or the Islamabad Bar Council].

(iii)No enrolment shall be granted unless the applicant deposits the enrolment fee in the manner prescribed heretofore.