Enrollment in bar council

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 14 November 2011 This query is : Resolved
I have passed LL.B this year. But I am a full-time salaried employee of a State Government. I know that I can't practice law as an advocate until I quit my present job. However,can I be allowed to enroll myself in the Bar Council reserving my right to practice until I quit my present job(to start practice only after I retire from Government service). I come to know that some State Bar Councils are allowing such enrollment while reserving the right to practice.

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adv. rajeev ( rajoo ) (Expert) 14 November 2011
No. yopu cannot get enrolled your name to the bar council.

Advocate. Arunagiri (Expert) 14 November 2011
You are not entitled to register in the Bar council, as you are employed.

Sailesh Kumar Shah (Expert) 14 November 2011
you can entitled to enroll only after retirement of your government service.

Extract of Relevant Part:-
Section VII-Restriction on other Employments
49. An advocate shall not be a full-time salaried employee of any person, government, firm, corporation or concern, so long as he continues to practise, and shall, on taking up any such employment,
intimate the fact to the Bar Council on whose roll his name appears and shall thereupon cease to practise as an advocate so long as he continues in such employment.