law: The Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, 2001
  Chapter V Membership
  
  and Payment out of Advocates' Welfare Fund
  18. Membership in
  
  Fund.-
  1. 
  
   Every
  
  advocate practicing, before the commencement of this Act, in any court,
  
  tribunal or other authority in a State and being a member of a State Bar
  
  Association or a State Advocates' Association in that State, shall apply, w
  
  thin six months of the commencement of this Act, to the Trustee Committee for
  
  admission as a member of the Fund, in such form as may be prescribed.
  2. 
  
   Every
  
  person,-
  a.    admitted as an
  
  advocate on the roll of a State Bar Council, after the commencement of this
  
  Act;
  b.    practicing in any
  
  court, tribunal or other authority in a State and being a member of a State Bar
  
  Association or a State Advocates' Association in that State, shall apply,
  
  within six months of his enrolment as an advocate to the Trustee Committee, for
  
  admission as a member of the Fund in such form as may be prescribed.
  1. 
  
    
  2. 
  
    
  3. 
  
   On
  
  receipt of an application under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), the Trustee
  
  Committee shall make such enquiry as it deems fit and either admit the
  
  applicant to the Fund or, for reasons to be recorded in writing, reject the
  
  application: Provided that no order rejecting an application shall be passed
  
  unless the applicant has been given an opportunity of being heard.
  4. 
  
   Every
  
  applicant shall pay an application fee of two hundred rupees along with the
  
  application to the account of the Trustee Committee.
  5. 
  
   Every
  
  advocate, being a member of the Fund, shall pay an annual subscription of fifty
  
  rupees to the Fund on or before the 31st day of March of every year: Provided
  
  that every advocate, who makes an application under sub-section (1) or
  
  sub-section (2), shall pay his first annual subscription within three months of
  
  his becoming a member of the Fund: Provided further that a senior advocate
  
  shall pay an annual subscription of one thousand rupees.
  6. 
  
   Any
  
  member of the Fund, who fails to pay the annual subscription for any year
  
  before the 31st day of March of that year, shall be liable to be removed from
  
  the membership in the Fund.
  7. 
  
  
  
   A
  
  member of the Fund removed from the membership in the Fund under sub-section
  
  (6) may be re-admitted to the Fund, on payment of arrears along with
  
  re-admission fee of ten rupees, within six months from the date of such
  
  removal.
  8. 
  
   Every
  
  member of the Fund shall, at the time of admission to the membership in the
  
  Fund, make nomination conferring on one or more of his dependants the right to
  
  receive, in the event of his death, any amount payable to the member under this
  
  Act.
  9. 
  
   If
  
  a member of the Fund nominates more than one person under sub-section (8), he
  
  shall specify in the nomination, the amount of share payable to each of the
  
  nominees.
  10. 
  
   A
  
  member of the Fund may, at any time, cancel a nomination by sending a notice in
  
  writing to the Trustee Committee.
  11. 
  
   Every
  
  member of the Fund, who cancels his nomination under sub-section (10), shall
  
  make a fresh nomination along with registration fee of five rupees.
  12. 
  
   Every
  
  member of the Fund, whose name has been removed from the State roll under
  
  section 26A of the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), or who voluntarily
  
  suspends practice, shall, within fifteen days of such removal or suspension,
  
  intimate such removal or suspension to the Trustee Committee and if any member
  
  of the Fund fails to do so without sufficient reason, the Trustee Committee may
  
  reduce, in accordance with such principles as may be prescribed, the amount
  
  payable to that member under this Act.