Solicitors Act, 1954

Assignment of indentures or fresh indentures on death of solicitor, etc.

32.—Where, before the expiration of the term for which an apprentice is bound—

(a) the solicitor dies or ceases to practise as a solicitor,

(b) the indentures of apprenticeship are cancelled by mutual consent, or

(c) the indentures of apprenticeship are discharged by virtue of an order of the Society or of any court or otherwise,

the apprentice may be bound by an assignment of the indentures, or by fresh indentures, to another solicitor for the residue of the said term.