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The Bangladesh Chartered Accountants Order, 1973 (President's Order)

( PRESIDENT'S ORDER NO. 2 OF 1973 )

4. (1) Any of the following persons shall be entitled to have his name entered in the Register, namely,-
 
 
 
 
(i) any person, being a citizen of Bangladesh, who is an existing chartered accountant at the commencement of this Order;
 
 
 
 
(ii) any person who has passed such examination and completed such training as may be prescribed;
 
 
 
 
(iii) any person who has passed such other examination and completed such other training outside Bangladesh of such Institute of Accountancy and admitted as member of that Institute as may be recognised by the Council as being equivalent to the examination and training prescribed for members of the Institute:
 
 
 
 
Provided that in the case of any such person who is not a citizen of, or permanently residing in, Bangladesh, the Council may impose such further conditions as it may deem fit;
 
 
 
 
(iv) (a) any person, being a citizen of Bangladesh, who at the commencement of this Order has passed such other examination and completed such other training outside Bangladesh of such Institute of Accountancy and admitted as member of that Institute:
 
 
 
 
Provided that any such examination or training of such Institute of Accountancy was recognised before the commencement of this Order for the purpose of conferring the right to be registered as a member under the Chartered Accountants Ordinance, 1961 (Ord. No. X of 1961);
 
 
 
 
(b) any person, being a citizen of Bangladesh, who at the commencement of this Order is studying for any foreign examination and is at the same time undergoing training, whether within or outside Bangladesh, of such Institute of Accountancy, or who having passed such foreign examination of such Institute of Accountancy is at the commencement of this Order undergoing training whether within or outside Bangladesh:
 
 
 
 
Provided that any such examination or training of such Institute of Accountancy was recognised before the commencement of this Order for the purpose of conferring the right to be registered as a member under the Chartered Accountants Ordinance, 1961 (Ord. No. X of 1961):
 
 
 
 
Provided further that such person passes the examination and completes the training and is admitted as a member of that Institute of Accountancy;
 
 
 
 
(v) any person, being a citizen of Bangladesh, who has passed the final examination held under the Auditor's Certificate Rules, 1950, or the Chartered Accountants Ordinance, 1961 (Ord. No. X of 1961), at any time before the 25th day of March, 1971.
 
 
 
 
(2) The name of every person belonging to the class mentioned in sub-clause (i) of clause (1) shall be entered in the Register without the payment of any entrance fee or any application being made in that behalf and shall, for the purpose of clause (1) of Article 3, be deemed to have been so entered at the commencement of this Order.
 
 
(3) Every person belonging to any of the classes mentioned in sub-clauses (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) of clause (1) shall have his name entered in the Register on application being made and granted in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, which shall not exceed Taka 1[two thousand] in any case.
 
 
 
 
(4) The Council shall take such steps as may be necessary for the purpose of having the names of all persons belonging to the class mentioned in sub-clause (i) of clause (1) entered in the Register.

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    The words “two thousand” were substituted for the words “five hundred” by section 2 of the Bangladesh Chartered Accountants (Amendment) Act, 1990 (Act No. XL of 1990)
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