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Clause 1 provides the short title to the legislation as well as a commencement provision. Clause 2 amends the interpretation section, section 2 of the principal Law, in order to provide or change definitions for several words used in the Bill. Clause 3 inserts a proposed new section 7A to provide that the Clerk of Court shall, in a specified time period, provide the secretary of the Association with the name of an attorney-at-law who has been added to the Roll in accordance with section 5 of the principal Law or who has been removed or struck from the Roll in accordance with sections 7 and 14 of the principal Law. Clause 4 inserts a new section 12A to provide that that every attorney-at-law admitted to practise under section 3 of the principal Law and to whom a practising certificate has been issued, shall be deemed to be a member of the Association for the purpose of being supervised by the Association in its capacity as a Supervisory Authority. Clause 5 makes a minor amendment to section 14 of the principal Law to provide for the use of the word \u201cCaymanian\u201d instead of the expression \u201cpossesses Caymanian status\u201d. 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Insertion of section 7A - Clerk of Court to provide information on the Roll to the Association 3. The principal Law is amended by inserting after section 7 the following section \u2014 \u201cClerk of Court to provide information on the Roll to the Association 7A. (1) The Clerk of Court shall, in the time period specified in subsection (2), provide the secretary of the Association with the name of an attorney-at-law who has been added to the Roll in accordance with section 5 and who has been removed or struck from the Roll in accordance with sections 7 and 14. (2) The information to be provided by the Clerk of Court under subsection (1) shall be provided to the secretary of the Association \u2014 (a) no later than fourteen days after the addition to, striking from, or other removal from, the Roll, of the attorney-at-law; or (b) upon the request of the Association, as soon as such addition, striking or other removal is made.\u201d. 4. 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ISLANDS LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION;\nAND FOR INCIDENTAL AND CONNECTED PURPOSES\n\n\u2000\n\nPage 2\nIntroduced\nc\n\nPUBLISHING DETAILS\n\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Bill, 2019\nObjects and Reasons\n\nc\nIntroduced\nPage 3\n\nMemorandum of\nOBJECTS AND REASONS\nThis Bill seeks to amend the Legal Practitioners Law (2015 Revision) (the \u201cprincipal\nLaw\u201d) in order to provide for the compulsory membership of attorneys-at-law in the\nCayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (the \u201cAssociation\u201d) solely for the\npurpose of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism supervision by that Association.\nClause 1 provides the short title to the legislation as well as a commencement provision.\nClause 2 amends the interpretation section, section 2 of the principal Law, in order to\nprovide or change definitions for several words used in the Bill.\nClause 3 inserts a proposed new section 7A to provide that the Clerk of Court shall, in a\nspecified time period, 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TO AMEND THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS LAW (2015 REVISION)\nIN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE MEMBERSHIP OF ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW IN THE\nCAYMAN ISLANDS LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION SOLELY FOR THE\nPURPOSE\nOF\nANTI-MONEY\nLAUNDERING\nAND\nCOUNTER-TERRORISM\nSUPERVISION BY THE CAYMAN ISLANDS LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION;\nAND FOR INCIDENTAL AND CONNECTED PURPOSES\nENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands.\n1.\nShort title and commencement\n1.\n(1) This Law may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2019.\n(2) This Law shall come into force on such date as may be appointed by Order\nmade by the Cabinet.\n2.\nAmendment of section 2 of the Legal Practitioners Law (2015 Revision) -\ndefinitions\n2.\nThe Legal Practitioners Law (2015 Revision), in this Law referred to as the\n\u201cprincipal Law\u201d, is amended in section 2 as follows \u2014\n(a)\nin the definition of \u201cClerk of Court\u201d, by deleting the words \u201csection 9\u201d\nand substituting the words \u201csection 7\u201d; and\n(b)  by inserting, in their appropriate alphabetical sequence, the following\ndefinitions \u2014\n\nClause 3\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Bill, 2019\n\nPage 8\nIntroduced\nc\n\n\u201c \u201cAssociation\u201d means the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners\nAssociation, a company limited by guarantee and designated as the\nSupervisory Authority for attorneys-at-law;\n\u201cCaymanian\u201d means a person who possesses Caymanian status\nunder the repealed Immigration Law (2015 Revision) or any earlier\nlaw providing for the same or similar rights, and includes a person\nwho acquired that status under Part 5 of the Immigration\n(Transition) Law, 2018; and\n\u201cSupervisory Authority\u201d means, in relation to attorneys-at-law,\nthe \u201cSupervisory Authority\u201d as defined in the Anti-Money\nLaundering Regulations (2018 Revision).\u201d.\n3.\nInsertion of section 7A - Clerk of Court to provide information on the Roll to\nthe Association\n3.\nThe principal 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(1) The Clerk of Court shall, in the time period specified in subsection\n(2), provide the secretary of the Association with the name of an\nattorney-at-law who has been added to the Roll in accordance with\nsection 5 and who has been removed or struck from the Roll in\naccordance with sections 7 and 14.\n(2) The information to be provided by the Clerk of Court under\nsubsection (1) shall be provided to the secretary of the\nAssociation \u2014\n(a)\nno later than fourteen days after the addition to, striking from,\nor other removal from, the Roll, of the attorney-at-law; or\n(b) upon the request of the Association, as soon as such addition,\nstriking or other removal is made.\u201d.\n4.\nInsertion of section 12A - membership of the Association for anti-money\nlaundering supervision\n4.\nThe principal Law is amended by inserting after section 12 the following section \u2014\n\n\u201cMembership of the Association for anti-money laundering\nsupervision\n12A.\nEvery attorney-at-law admitted under section 3 and who holds a\npractising certificate issued under section 12(2) shall be deemed to be\na member of the Association for the purpose of enabling the\nAssociation to carry out its duties as Supervisory Authority.\u201d.\n\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Bill, 2019\nClause 5\n\nc\nIntroduced\nPage 9\n\n5.\nAmendment of section 14 - non-practising attorneys-at-law to be struck off\nRoll\n5.\nThe principal Law is amended in section 14 by deleting the words \u201cpossesses\nCaymanian status\u201d and substituting the words \u201cis Caymanian\u201d.\n\nPassed by the Legislative Assembly the    day of                       , 2019.\n\nSpeaker\n\nClerk of the Legislative Assembly","akn_extracted_at":"2026-07-18 12:35:34.514112+00","cms_id":"2019-0027","law_type":"bill","year":"2019","number":"27","title":"Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Bill, 2019","status":"bill"},"provenance":{"files":[{"file_id":"6997","expr_id":"2198","kind":"akn_xml","filename":"2019-0027.akn.xml","source_url":null,"storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/BILLS\/2019\/2019-0027\/2019-0027.akn.xml","content_md5":"44385fd74db88ee9d060b3a3d5d483e1","byte_size":"9038","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-07-18 12:35:34.558651+00"},{"file_id":"4395","expr_id":"2198","kind":"pristine_pdf","filename":"2019-0027.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/BILLS\/2019\/2019-0027\/2019-0027.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/pristine\/BILLS\/2019\/2019-0027\/2019-0027.pdf","content_md5":"e276c10e37b8ebd73483deab795bf12d","byte_size":"453129","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-16 04:01:11.283875+00"},{"file_id":"4396","expr_id":"2198","kind":"working_pdf","filename":"2019-0027.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/BILLS\/2019\/2019-0027\/2019-0027.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/BILLS\/2019\/2019-0027\/2019-0027.pdf","content_md5":"e276c10e37b8ebd73483deab795bf12d","byte_size":"453129","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-16 04:01:11.283875+00"}],"paragraph_count":18,"latest_history":{"history_id":"270174","change_type":"UPDATE","changed_at":"2026-07-18 00:00:00+00","change_source":"MIGRATION_027","change_reason":"CMS-id-collision audit 2026-07-18: title corrected from the document's own PDF and\/or the (law_type, cms_id)-keyed official legislation.gov.ky listing."}},"quality":{"expr_id":"2198","doc_id":"2198","quality_state":"known_issue","quality_score":"55","needs_human_review":"t","deterministic_categories":"{commencement_metadata_problem,duplicate_text,page_header_footer_noise,title_mismatch}","llm_categories":"{}","repair_actions":"{collapse_duplicate_text,strip_page_furniture,verify_commencement_metadata,verify_title_metadata}","finding_severity_counts":"{\"low\": 2, \"high\": 1, \"medium\": 1}","finding_summary":"stored title is not visible in the opening extracted text; repeated line furniture detected: cayman islands x3; introduced x6; legal practitioners amendment bill 2019 x5","assessed_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:46.677375+00","updated_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:46.677375+00"}}