Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10)
Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10), article 43
43. It shall be an offence for any person -
(a) to act as a tout on behalf of any advocate or legal
procurator or notary public or on his own account; or
(b) to induce or to endeavour to induce any client or
prospective client of any advocate or of any legal
procurator or of any notar y public to cease to be the
client of such advocate or l egal procurato r or notary
public in order to become th e client of the advocate or
legal procurator or notary public, whom such person
serves as secretary, clerk, o r in any other capacity; or
(c) maliciously to decry the professional ability of an
advocate or of a legal procurator or of a notary public
for the purpose of diverting professional work to
another advocate or to anot her legal procurator or to
another notary public.
CODE OF POLICE LAWS [CAP. 10. 9
List of touts and
appeals against
inclusion of names
therein.
Added by:
I.1947.2.
Amended by:
L.N. 148 of 1975;
VIII.1990 .3;
XXIV .1995.362;
XXXI.2002 .255.
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