law: Advocates Act, 1961
  18. Transfer of name from one State roll to another-
  (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section, 17 any person
  
  whose name is entered as an advocate on the roll of any State Bar Council may
  
  make an application in the prescribed form to the Bar Council of India for the
  
  transfer of his name from the roll of that State Bar Council to the roll of any
  
  other State Bar Council and, on receipt of any such application the Bar Council
  
  of India shall direct that name of such person shall without the payment of any
  
  fee, be removed from the roll of the first mentioned State Bar Council and
  
  entered in the roll of the other State Bar Council and the State Bar Councils
  
  concerned shall comply with such direction.
  [ (Note:- Added by Act 21 of 1964, sec.10)  Provided that
  
  where any such application for transfer is made by a person, against whom any
  
  disciplinary proceedings is pending or where for any other reason if appears to
  
  the Bar Council of India that the application for transfer has not been made
  
  bona fide and that the transfer should not be made, the Bar Council of India
  
  may, after giving the person making the application an opportunity of making a
  
  representation in this behalf, reject the application.]
  (2) For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that where
  
  on an application made by an advocate under sub section (1) his name is
  
  transferred from the roll of one State Bar Council to that of another, he shall
  
  retain the same seniority in the latter roll to which he was entitled in the
  
  former roll.