Power to enrol advocates, etc

Section 31 of the Andhra State Act, 1953 deals with power to enrol advocates, etc. The High Court of Andhra shall have the like power to approve, admit, enroll, remove and suspend advocates and attorneys and to make rules with respect to advocates and attorneys, as are, under the law in force immediately before the prescribed day, exercisable by the High Court at Madras. The Act came into force on 01 Oct 1953.

(1) The High Court of Andhra shall have the like power to approve, admit, enroll, remove and suspend advocates and attorneys and to make rules with respect to advocates and attorneys, as are, under the law in force immediately before the prescribed day, exercisable by the High Court at Madras.

(2) The right of audience in the High Court of Andhra shall be regulated in accordance with the like principles as, immediately before the prescribed day, are in force with respect to the right of audience in the High Court at Madras:

Provided that, subject to any rule made or direction given by the High Court of Andhra in the exercise of the powers conferred by this section, any person who immediately before the prescribed day is an advocate entitled to practice or an attorney entitled to act in the High Court at Madras shall be recognised as an advocate or an attorney entitled to practice or to act, as the case may be, in the High Court of Andhra.

Section 31, The Andhra State Act, 1953 (Act 30 of 1953).