Legal practitioners (1886) (WA)

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ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO

VICTORIIF BEGINS

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No. XXXI.

AN ACT to amend the Law regulating the Admission of Barristers, Solicitors, Attor- neys, and Proctors to the Supreme Court,

[ Assented to, 2nd September, 1886. ]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law regulating the Western Australia: Be it enacted by His Excellency the GovernorW

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Admission of Practitioners to the Supreme Court of

of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything in any Ordinance, Act, or Law contained to the contrary, from and after the passing of

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mission to Supreme

this Act no person, however qualified in other respects, shall be

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admitted to be a Barrister, Solicitor, Attorney, or Proctor of the

Colony.

said Supreme Court unless and until he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Board appointed under the Barristers Act of 1881, the 45th Victoria, No. 1, that he has actually resided within the Colony of Western Australia for a period of not less than six months, and that he is a person of good fame and character ; and also unless and until he shall pay to the Registrar of the said Supreme Court the Stamp duty on admission imposed by

50° VICTORIA, No. 31.

Admission of Barristers—Amendment.

" The Stamp Act, 1882." Provided, however, that this Act shall

not apply to any person appointed to any Crown Law Office in

Western Australia.

Postponement of 2. THIS Act shall not come into operation till the first day of

operation of Act. January, 1887.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.