The Bar Councils and Legal Practitioners (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act, 1947

1. (1) This Act may be called the Bar Councils and Legal Practitioners (Inamil Nadu] Amendment) Act, 1947. (2) It extends to the whole of the 4[State of Tamil Nadu].

(ii) to the same sub-section, the following Explanations shall be added, namely :- "Explanation 1.-The holding of any politi- cal opinion, or the expression of it in any form or act not involving physical violence or incitement to or abetment of such violence, is not misconduct within the meaning of this sub-section. bxplanation 2.-Conviction for any polit f cal offence, under any general, special or local Law or Ordinance or any rules made thereunder, includ- ing conviction under section 124-A of the Ind~ar! Penal Code or the Indian Criminal Law Amendment of 1860.

3. In the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879- (i) in Chapter 111, after section 13, the following z y I ~ ~ 9 . section shall be inserted, namely :- --- -*. " -- ------.+- ---

22-A. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 21 and 22, no revenue-agent holding a certificate as aforesaid shall be liable to be proceeded against or punished under those sections- (i) for holding any politiual opinion, or expressing it in any form or act not involving physical violence or incitement to or abetment of such violence ;

5. If any advocate has b e y suspended or removed from practice under the Indian Bar Councils Act, CentrpJ 1926. or if anv deader. mukhtar or Revenue-agent Act has been susdenhed o; dismissed under the Ggal ff:$:i,li Practitioners Act, 1879, and such suspension, removal or dismissal is subsisting on the date of the commence- A C ~ ment of this Act. then. the advocate, deader. mukhtar XVIII I or ~evenue-agent may, within one year from the said Of date, apply in writing unde~ this section to the High Court or the Chief Controlling Revent~e-authority, as the case may be, and the High Court or the Chief Controlling ~&enue-authority shall thereupon vacate the order of suspension, removal or dismissal, if such order could not have been passed after the commence- - merit of this Act.