(1) An attorney-at-law who desires to practise law shall apply to the Registrar for a certificate to be called a practising certificate.
(2) On being satisfied that the attorney-at-law is not disqualified from obtaining a practising certificate, the Registrar shall issue to the attorney-at-law a practising certificate.
(3) A practising certificate shall be as prescribed in Form 2 of Schedule 2.
(4) The Registrar shall cause to be published in the Gazette—
(a) in the month of February in every year, an alphabetical list of persons who have as at 31 January in that year obtained a practising certificate;
(b) as soon as practicable after a person obtains a practising certificate, the name of the person.
(5) A copy of the Gazette containing the name of any person published under subsection (4), is prima facie evidence in any court of the registration on the Roll, of the name of, and the holding of a valid practising certificate by that person.
(Substituted by Act 18 of 2001)