Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
1st November, 2001 (whole of India except certain States), vide notification No. S.O. 946(E), dated 26th September, 2001, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). 4 (n) “stamp” means the Advocates’ Welfare Fund Stamp printed and distributed under section 26; (o) “State” means a State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution and shall include a Union territory; (p) “State Advocates’ Association” means an association of advocates in a State recognised by the Bar Council of that State under section 16; (q) “State Bar Association” means an association of advocates recognised by the Bar Council of that State under section 16; (r) “State Bar Council” means a Bar Council referred to in section 3 of the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961); (s) “suspension of practice” means voluntary suspension of practice as an advocate or suspension of an advocate by a State Bar Council for misconduct; (t) “Trustee Committee” means the Advocates’ Welfare Fund Trustee Committee established under sub-section (1) of section 4; (u) “Vakalatnama” includes memorandum of appearance or any other document by which an advocate is empowered to appear or plead before any court, tribunal or other authority; (v) words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act. CHAPTER II CONSTITUTION OF ADVOCATES’ WELFARE FUND