REPUBLIC OF NAURU
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019
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No. 28 of 2019
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An Act to amend the Legal Practitioners Act 2019  
Certified: 28th November 2019
Table of Contents

1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment of the Legal Practitioners Act 2019
4	Amendment of Section 4
5	Amendment of Section 20

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:
1	Short title
This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2019.
2	Commencement
This Act commences on certification of the Speaker.  
3	Amendment of the Legal Practitioners Act 2019
The Legal Practitioners Act 2019 is amended by the provisions of this Act.
4	Amendment of Section 4
Section 4 is amended by deleting and substituting the meaning for ‘President’ as follows: 
‘President’ means the President of the Law Society who shall be a legal practitioner duly admitted to practice law in the Republic;
5	Amendment of Section 20
Section 20(1) is deleted and substituted as follows: 
The clause now reads: 
‘(1)  A practitioner shall not commence practice under his or her own name or a business name:

(a)	without any supervision unless he or she has practiced for a minimum period of 3 years after admission to the Supreme Court; and

(b)	has practiced under the supervision of a practitioner having practiced for not less than 3 years in the Republic or elsewhere.’