Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959
6. Certificate of practice
(1) No member of the Institute shall be
entitled to practice, whether in India or elsewhere, unless he has obtained
from the Council a certificate of practice.
(2) Every such member shall make application
in such form and pay such annual fee, for his certificate as may be prescribed,
and such fee shall be payable on or before the lst day of April in
each year:
PROVIDED that if a member of the Institute who
was in practice immediately before the commencement of this Act has made within
one month of such commencement an application for the grant of certificate of
practice, he shall not be deemed to have contravened the provisions of
sub-section (1) by reason of his having practiced during the period between
such commencement and the disposal of the application.