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104(1) Every person who holds office as a bencher, an officer of the society, a member of a committee or a member of the board of The Manitoba Law Foundation immediately before this Act comes into force continues to hold that office on the coming into force of this Act.
104(2) Any complaints, investigations or proceedings commenced under The Law Society Act with respect to the conduct or competence of a member or other person entitled to practise law or prohibited from practising law in Manitoba under that Act are continued under this Act. Subject to any rules made under subsection (3), this Act and the rules made under this Act apply with necessary changes to those complaints, investigations or proceedings as if they had been commenced under this Act.
104(3) The benchers may make rules clarifying, limiting or extending the application of
(a) this Act and the rules made under this Act; or
(b) The Law Society Act and the rules made under that Act;
to a complaint, investigation or proceeding referred to in subsection (2).
NOTE: These sections contained consequential amendments to other Acts that are now included in those Acts.
108 The Law Society Act, R.S.M. 1987, c. L100, is repealed.
109 This Act may be referred to as chapter L107 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.
110(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into force on October 31, 2002.
110(2) Section 25 comes into force only if
(a) The Partnership Amendment and Business Names Registration Amendment Act, introduced as Bill 21 in the 3rd Session of the 37th Legislature, receives royal assent; and
(b) Part III of The Partnership Act as enacted by section 5 of Bill 21 comes into force.
If Part III comes into force on a day after October 31, 2002, section 25 comes into force on that later day.
NOTE:
Section 25 of S.M. 2002, c. 44 came into force on February 25, 2003.
