(1) For the purposes of this Act, a law officer is an attorney-at-law who holds office in the Public Service and is appointed by the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, and which office is declared by order of the Attorney General to be a law office.
(2) A law officer or member of Cabinet so long as he or she remains a law officer or member of Cabinet shall be deemed to be the holder of a valid practising certificate and to be a practitioner member of the Bar Association.
(3) A certificate in the form set out as Form 3 in Schedule 2 signed by the Attorney General to the effect that a particular person is a law officer or member of Cabinet is prima facie evidence of that fact.
(Amended by Act 18 of 2001)