Change of bar council ragistration to Another State
Manju Jain
(Querist) 19 June 2011
This query is : Resolved
I want to change my Enrollment to another state bar council. Pls guide me. I am allready enrolled in Rajasthan bar council.
R.Ramachandran
(Expert) 19 June 2011
With the recent notification by the Government of Section 30 of the Advocates Act, you can practice in any court in the country without the need for transfer of your enrolment from one State Bar Council to another State.
Still, if you want to get the transfer, please indicate, we will paste the procedure for your benefit.
Ravikant Soni
(Expert) 19 June 2011
Laws - The Advocates Act - Section
18. Transfer of name from one State roll to another.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 17, any person whose name is entered as an advocate on the roll of any State Bar Council may make an application in the prescribed form to the Bar Council of India for the transfer of his name from the roll of that State Bar Council to the roll of any other State Bar Council and, on receipt of any such application the Bar Council of India shall direct that the name of such person shall, without the payment of any fee, be removed from the roll of the first mentioned State Bar Council and entered in the roll of the other State Bar Council and the State Bar Councils concerned shall comply with such direction
1[PROVIDEO that where any such application for transfer is made by a person against whom any disciplinary proceeding is pending or where for any other reason it appears to the Bar Council of India that the application for transfer has not been made bona fide and that the transfer should not be made, the Bar Council of India may, after giving the person making the application an opportunity of making a representation in this behalf, reject the application].
(2) For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that where on an application made by an advocate under sub-section (1), his name is transferred from the roll of one State Bar Council to that of another, he shall retain the same seniority in the latter roll to which he was entitled in the former roll.
PALNITKAR V.V.
(Expert) 19 June 2011
Mr. Ramachandran is right. Now you can practice in any court within India once you are registered with any one of the bar councils
Arun Kumar Bhagat
(Expert) 20 June 2011
You can practice upto Supreme Court. There is no need.
