Pg. P.U. 5/1997 PEGUAM SYARIE (STATE OF PENANG) RULES 1997
PART IV - DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING
Rule 18. Disciplinary Action
(1) The Committee may, on due cause being shown, take disciplinary action agaist any Peguam Syariein accordance with the provisions of this Part.
(2) Due cause may be shown by proof that the Peguam Syarie-
(a) has been convicted of a criminal offence (under any written law) which make him unfit to be a member of his profession ;
(b) has been guilty of dishonest conduct in the discharge of his professional duty or of fradulent conduct or conduct otherwise unbefitting of a Peguam Syarie;
(c) has been adjudicated bankrupt and has been found guilty of any of the acts or omission mentioned in paragraph 33(6)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (k)or (l)of the Bankruptcy Act, 1967 ;
(d) has tendered or given gratification to any person for having procured the employment in any legal business of himself or any other Peguam Syarie:
(e) has directly or indirectly procured or attempted to procure the employment in any legal business of himself or any other Peguam Syariethrough or by the instruction of any person to whom any renumeration for obtaining such employment has been given by him or agreed or promised to be so given;
(f) has accepted employment in any legal business through a tout ;
(g) has allowed any clerk or unauthorised person to undertake or carry on legal business in his name, the clerk or that other unauthorised person not being under such direct and immediate control of his principal as to ensure that he does not act without proper supervision ;
(h) carries on by himself or through any person in his employment in trade, business or calling which in the opinion of MAINPP is incompatible with the profession of law or is employed in any such trade, business or calling ;
(i) has contravened or failed to comply with any of the provisions of his Enactment or of any Rules made thereunder, if in the opinion of MAINPP, such contravention or failure warrants disciplinary action.