Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1950 (WA)

1950.] Legal Practitioners. [No. 49.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

14- and 15 : Geo. VI., No. XLIX.

No. 49 of 1950.

AN ACT to amend Sections Seven and Twenty- four of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-1948.

[Assented to 18th December, 1950.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners grat.37dt.

with the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-1948 (Act

57 Victoriae No. XII as reprinted with amendments

up to and including Act No. 48 of 1926 in the

Appendix to the Sessional Volume of the Statutes

for the year 1927, and as further amended by Acts

No. 45 of 1944, No. 18 of 1945, No. 18 of 1946 and

Act Amendment Act, 1950, and shall be read as one 1948, 3.1. cipal Act.

2.    The principal Act as amended by this Act may 19,ggimor

be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-1950. :intended

No. 491 Legal Practitioners. [1950.

S. 7

amended. 3. Section seven of the principal Act is amended

by deleting from the first five lines of subsection (2)

the words

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.

S. 24

Section twenty-four of the principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph (e) of sub- section (1) the word "and" and a further paragraph as follows:

amended. 4.

Cf. No. 37 of

1948, s. S.

(1) if it is satisfied on the evidence before it at such enquiry that any sum certain in money is owing or payable by the practi- tioner to the complainant, order the prac- titioner to pay such sum to the Board.