Advocates Welfare Fund

Advocates Welfare Fund.--(1) The Government shall constitute a fund called the Advocates' Welfare Fund.

1. (2) There shall be credited to the Fund -
   • (a) all amounts paid by the Bar Council under section 12 ;
   • (b) any other contribution made by the Bar Council ;
   • (c) any voluntary donation or contribution made to the Fund by the Bar Council of India, any Bar Association, any other association or institution, any advocate or any other person ;
   • (d) any grant made by the State Government to the Fund;
   • (e) the amount set apart from the Legal Benefit Fund constituted under sub- section
2. (2) of section 78 of the Kerala Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1959 (10 of 1960) , for providing social security measures for the legal profession;
   • (f) any sum borrowed under section 10 ;
   • (g) all sums received from the Life Insurance Corporation of India on the death of an advocate under the Group Insurance Policy;
   • (h) any profit or dividend received from the Life Insurance Corporation of India in respect of policies of Group Insurance of the members of the Fund;
     • (i) any interest or dividend or other return on any investment made of any part of the Fund;
   • (j) all sums collected by way of sale of stamps under section 22;
   • (k) all sums collected under section 15 by way of application fees and annual subscriptions and interest thereon.
3. (3) The sums specified in sub- section (2) shall be paid to, or collected by, such agencies, at such intervals and in such manner , and the accounts of the Fund shall be maintained in such manner, as may be prescribed.