3.5 History of Nepal Bar Association

The birth: established 21 December 1956 (2013 B.S.) — the verified date; the lawyers' own organisation, the collective voice first. The formalisation: registered 1963 under the National Guidance Act 1961. The growth: the central association (Kathmandu headquarters, elected leadership, the election cycle's democratic self-governance) + the district bars (nationwide chapters — the member's first home). The character: voluntary, independent, the largest lawyers' association — the profession's voice, not the licence's source (the membership follows the licence: first the Council's enrolment, then the association's membership — the order remembered). The eras of consequence: the 1990 movement's conscience; the 2006 people's movement; the constitutional-transition roles (1990, 2007, 2015); the bar-bench partnership and its strains (Unit 1.6); the NBA's seats in judicial accountability and legal aid (the institutional expression). 3.6 Nepal Bar Council Act, 2050 B.S. and its Regulation, 2051 3.6.1 Establishment and Formation: the Council created by the Act — an independent statutory body, the profession's regulator (the public's protector and the profession's gatekeeper); the composition mixed — bench and bar represented, ex-officio and elected members (the statute's own structure; the design philosophy: independence — the profession largely self- regulating, the autonomy the 2050 Act's gift). 3.6.2 Functions, Powers and Duties: enrolment and licensing (the register kept, the licence issued, the right to practise conferred); the examinations (3.6.4); the code of conduct…