Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10)

Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10), article 43

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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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