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Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 07 October 2011 This query is : Resolved
I am Practiceing as a Lawyer with Sanad from Gujarat State Bar Council. I also teach in Two Law colleges as a Visiting Faculty. I m offered job by the Law college. If I accept this as a Part time, do i need to seek permission from State Bar Council ?

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Advocate. Arunagiri (Expert) 07 October 2011
If you do it as a part time, you dont need permission from the Bar Council.

The monetary benefits, what you receive from the college should not a salary.

Sailesh Kumar Shah (Expert) 07 October 2011
You can accept subject to:-

Government of India Ministry of Law, Justice & Company
Affairs, Department of Legal Affairs.
NOTIFICATION
G.S.R in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 49A of the
Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), the Central Government hereby
make the following rules, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement :
(1) These rules may be called the Advocates (Right to take up
Law teaching) rules, 1979.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in
the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions
In these rules “Act’ means the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961).
3. Right of practising advocates to take up law teaching.
(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any
rule made under the Act, an advocate may, while practising, take up
teaching of law in any educational institution which is affiliated to a
University within the meaning of the University Grants Commission
Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), so long as the hours during which he is so
engaged in the teaching of law do not exceed three hours in a day.
(2) When any advocate is employed in any such educational
institution for the teaching of law, such employment shall, if the
hours during which he is so engaged in the teaching of law do not
exceed three hours, be deemed, for the purposes of the Act and the
rules made thereunder, to be a part-time employment irrespective of
the manner in which such employment is described or the
remuneration receivable (whether by way of a fixed amount or on
the basis of any time scale of pay or in any other manner) by the
advocate for such employment.