Section 17: Law officers and State Attorneys not entitled to private practice
consolidated text (as at 1992, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
17. Law officers and State Attorneys not entitled to private practice
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the law officers and the State Attorneys
shall not, except with the authorisation in writing of the President, be
entitled to practise as barrister or attorney, as the case may be, on behalf of
any private party, but only for and on behalf of the State.
(2) Any person acting temporarily as Chief State Attorney may, with the
written permission of the President and subject to such conditions as the
President thinks fit, retain his right to private practice.
[S. 17 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]