Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1926 (WA)

No. 48.] Legal Practitioners. [1926.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

17° GEO. V., No. XLVIII.

No. 48 of 1926.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893.

[ Assented to 24th December, 1926.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows :-

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners

Act Amendment Act, 1926, and shall be read as one with

the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893, hereafter referred to as the principal Act, and shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

Amendment of	2.	Section three of the principal Act is amended by the
see. 3.

insertion of a definition as follows :-

" Certificated Practitioner' means a practitioner who is the holder of a valid and current practice certificate in respect of which he has paid the pre- scribed annual fee."

Amendment of	3.	Section six, subsection one of the principal Act is
sec. 6.

amended as follows :—

( I) By the insertion after paragraph (c) of the

following new paragraph, to stand as paragraph (d) :-

" (d) For prescribing what portion if any of the

articles to be served by articled clerks may

be served during the period of their attend-

ance at the University of Western Australia

as students of law."

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(2) Paragraph (d) is relettered (e) and paragraph

(e) is relettered (f).

(3) By the insertion after paragraph (f) of the

following new paragraph to stand as paragraph (g) :-

" (g) For the issue of annual practice certificates,

and for fixing an annual fee to be paid to the Board

for the issue of such certificates (which fee shall be

not more than ten pounds nor less than five pounds)."

(4) Paragraph (f) is relettered (h).

4. Section seven of the principal Act is deleted and the Amendment of sec. 7.

following substituted in lieu thereof :—

" 7. All moneys received by the Board under this Act shall be applied as follows :-

(1) For the purposes of can ying out the provisions

hereof and of the rides ;

(2) For the payment of the sum of five hundred pounds in each year to the University of Western Australia as a contribution towards the establishing and maintaining of a chair of law. Any sum remaining in the hands of the Board on the thirtieth day of June in each year beyond the sum of one hundred pounds may be applied by the Board for the purposes of the Law Library."

5. Section fourteen of the principal Act is amended as tem ° tent of

follows :-

(1) Before the word " or " at the end of paragraph (a) add the words " of at least two years' standing " ; provided that the words so added shall not apply to persons who are domiciled in Western Australia, but who at the time of the coming into operation of this Act, or within one year thereafter, may be temporarily absent from Western Australia, and who shall be entered as students at any of the Inns of Court in England or Ireland.

(2) In paragraph (e) delete the word " three " in

the last line and insert in lieu thereof the word " two."

6. Sections forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, and forty- Amendmt of en

nine of the principal Act are amended by the insertion of and 4U. 47' 48'

the word " certificated " before the word " practitioner "

wherever such latter word occurs therein.

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Provision for appeal	7. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act or in the Legal Practitioners Act, 1909, there shall be an appeal to the Full Court of Western Australia by any person to whom the Board shall have refused to grant a certificate under section fifteen (b) of the principal Act or section two (b) of the Legal Prac- titioners Act Amendment Act, 1909.
Barristers' Board.

from decision of