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| (1) The Board may, on the instructions of a public corporation or local authority or where any special circumstance so requires or in respect of any matter which may be generally or specially prescribed, seek the advice or engage the services of any attorney-at-law, not on the Board or employed by the Institute and not being a state officer, or any foreign lawyer, whether in Sri Lanka or abroad, to advise or to represent any such public corporation or local authority or its employee or any person or body referred to in section 15 (c) before any court, tribunal or other institution established by law for the administration of justice or before any other body or person. |
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| (2) The right of any foreign lawyer to appear before any court, tribunal or institution or other body or person shall be determined in accordance with any law, regulation or practice for the time being governing the right of audience before the Supreme Court or other judicial tribunal in Sri Lanka. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts