Legal Practice Act, 2014 (Act No. 28 of 2014)Chapter 3 : Regulation of Legal Practitioners and Candidate Legal Practitioners29. Community service |
| (1) | The Minister must, after consultation with the Council, prescribe the requirements for community service from a date to be determined by the Minister, and such requirements may include— |
| (a) | community service as a component of practical vocational training by candidate legal practitioners; or |
| (b) | a minimum period of recurring community service by practising legal practitioners upon which continued enrolment as a legal practitioner is dependent. |
| (2) | Community service for the purposes of this section may include, but is not limited, to the following: |
| (a) | Service in the State, approved by the Minister, in consultation with the Council; |
| (b) | service at the South African Human Rights Commission; |
| (c) | service, without any remuneration, as a judicial officer in the case of legal practitioners, including as a commissioner in the small claims courts; |
| (d) | the provision of legal education and training on behalf of the Council, or on behalf of an academic institution or non-governmental organisation; or |
| (e) | any other service which the candidate legal practitioner or the legal practitioner may want to perform, with the approval of the Minister. |
| (3) | The Council may, on application and on good cause shown, exempt any candidate legal practitioner or legal practitioner from performing community service, as set out in the rules. |