Bill repeals Legal Practitioners Act, 1879; inserts new section 45A into Advocates Act

This Bill amends the Advocates Act, 1961 to incorporate provisions for identifying and penalizing 'touts' (persons who procure legal work for remuneration) from the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879. It aims to consolidate the regulation of the legal profession under a single Act and repeal the obsolete Legal Practitioners Act, 1879.

The law affects High Courts, District Judges, Sessions Judges, District Magistrates, and Revenue-officers (who gain powers to frame lists of touts), as well as persons acting as touts and legal practitioners.

• Inserts a new section 45A into the Advocates Act, 1961.
• Empowers specified judicial and revenue authorities to frame and publish lists of persons proved to be touts.
• Requires that no person be included in a list without an opportunity to show cause against inclusion.
• Allows authorities to order subordinate courts to hold inquiries into suspected touts.
• Mandates that copies of tout lists be displayed in relevant courts.
• Empowers courts to exclude listed touts from court precincts.
• Prescribes a penalty of up to three months' imprisonment, a fine of up to five hundred rupees, or both, for acting as a tout while listed.
• Defines 'tout' as a person who procures legal employment for remuneration or frequents court precincts and other public places for such procurement.
• Repeals sections 1, 3, and 36 of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 upon the commencement of the new section.

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