sec.40Consideration of applicant’s eligibility and suitability

### sec.40 Consideration of applicant’s eligibility and suitability To help the board to consider an application for admission, the board may, by notice to the applicant for admission, require the applicant— to give the board stated documents or information; or to cooperate with any inquiries by the board that it considers appropriate. An applicant’s failure to comply with a notice under subsection (1) by the date stated in, and in the way required by, the notice is a ground for recommending to the Supreme Court that the applicant not be admitted to the legal profession under this Act. However, if the board considers it appropriate to apply to the Supreme Court for a direction about a matter concerning an application, the board may do so. (sec.40-ssec.1) To help the board to consider an application for admission, the board may, by notice to the applicant for admission, require the applicant— to give the board stated documents or information; or to cooperate with any inquiries by the board that it considers appropriate. (sec.40-ssec.2) An applicant’s failure to comply with a notice under subsection (1) by the date stated in, and in the way required by, the notice is a ground for recommending to the Supreme Court that the applicant not be admitted to the legal profession under this Act. (sec.40-ssec.3) However, if the board considers it appropriate to apply to the Supreme Court for a direction about a matter concerning an application, the board may do so. - (a) to give the board stated documents or information; or - (b) to cooperate with any inquiries by the board that it considers appropriate.