Advocates Act, 1961
58AD. Special provisions with respect to certain persons
migrating to India-
Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the provisions of the
Legal Practitioner Act, 1879, or of any other law relating to the admission and
enrolment of legal practitioners (hereafter in this Section referred to as such
Act or law), every person who migrates to the territory of India from any area
which, before the 15th day of August, 1947, was comprised within
India as defined in the Government of India Act, 1935, and who has , before
such migration, been a pleader, mukhtar or revenue agent in any such area under
any law in force therein, may be admitted and enrolled under the relevant
provisions of such Act or law as a pleader, mukhtar or, as the case may be,
revenue agent, if he-
a. makes an application for the purpose to the appropriate
authority under such Act or law, and
b. is a citizen of India and fulfills other conditions, if
any, specified in this behalf by the appropriate authority aforesaid, and
notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the relevant provisions of such Act
or law, every pleader, mukhtar or revenue agent so enrolled shall have the same
right as respects practice in any court or revenue office or before any other
authority or person and be subject to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the same
authority to which he would be subject under the relevant provisions of such
Act or law as if they had been repealed and accordingly, those provisions shall
have effect in relation to such persons.