Barristers' Admission Act 1876 No 12a (NSW)

No. XXXII.

An Act to amend an Act intituled "An Act to regulate the admission in certain cases of Barristers of the Supreme Court of New South Wales." [26th May, 1876.]

that the Board thereby constituted for the approval of properly qualified persons to be Barristers of the Supreme Court of New South Wales should amongst other things make and promulgate from time to time rules for the examination of candidates for admission to the Bar in the Ancient Classics both Greek and Latin in Mathematics in Law and in such other branches of knowledge as the said Board should deem meet And whereas it is expedient that examinations in the Greek and Latin Classics should in future be dispensed with in the case of such candidates as have passed two annual examinations in the University of Sydney and that all other candidates for admission to the Bar should be allowed to be examined in the Erench language or Logic in lieu of Greek Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

W T HERE AS it is enacted by the Act eleventh Victoria number

I f fifty-seven intituled " An Act to regulate the admission in

certain cases of Barristers of the Supreme Court of New South Wales"

Exce l l en t Majesty by and wi th t h e advice and consent of t he Legislat ive Counci l and Legis la t ive Assembly of N e w South "Wales in P a r l i a m e n t assembled and by t h e au thor i ty of t h e same as fo l lows:—

1. After t he pass ing of th is A c t no candidate for admission to pract ise as a Bar r i s te r of t h e Supreme Cour t of N e w South W a l e s who

shall have passed two a n n u a l examinat ions in t he Univers i ty of Sydney shal l be required to pass a n examinat ion in t h e Greek and L a t i n Classics or in Ma themat i c s A n d i t shall no t bo obl igatory on any candidate whatsoever for such admission who shall pass an examina t ion in t he La t in Classics and in Logic or in t h e L a t i n Classics and the

F r e n c h l anguage a n d L i t e ra tu re to be examined in t h e Greek Classics

any th ing in t h e said reci ted A c t to t h e cont rary no twi ths tand ing .

2. The Board const i tu ted by t h e said reci ted A c t shall as soon as

convenient ly m a y be after the passing of th i s A c t and from t i m e to

t ime as may appear to t h e m expedient m a k e and p romulga te rules for t h e examina t ion of candidates for admission to t he Ba r in Logic and

the .French lansruacre and Li te ra tu re .