Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1946 (WA)

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

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No. 18 of 1946.

AN ACT to amend section six of the Legal Practitioners

Act, 1893-1945.

[Assented to 2nd December, 1946.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in 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

194, s. 3. Act Amendment Act, 1946, and shall be read as one with No. 18 of

the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-1945 (Act 57 Victoriae No. 12 as reprinted with amendments in the Sessional Volume of Statutes for the year 1927, and as amended by Acts No. 45 of 1944 and No. 18 of 1945), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

1946.] Legal Practitioners. [No. 18.

2.    Section six of the principal Act is amended by otIdment

inserting in subsection (1) after paragraph (d) a new

paragraph as follows:—

(da) For prescribing in relation to articled clerks who have served in the armed forces at any time since the 3rd day of September, 1939, and whose articles were registered before enlist- ment therein, what period of service (not exceeding twelve months) in such forces may

be deemed equivalent to actual and bona fide

service under articles of clerkship to a prac- titioner for the purposes of this Act; and for prescribing in relation to persons who have so served in such forces what portion of the period of two years required by sec- tion fourteen of this Act to be served by graduates may be served before graduation and while attending the University of West- ern Australia as students of law and which

shall be deemed to be actual and bona fide

service under articles of clerkship to a prac-

titioner for the purposes of this Act.

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3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be principal Act as

cited as the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-1946. amended.