Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1958 (WA)

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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

7° Elizabeth II., No. IV.

No. 4 of 1958.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners

Act, 1893-1957, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 19th September, 1958.]

BE it enacted by the Queen'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:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Legal Practi- and citation.

tioners Act Amendment Act, 1958.

(2) In this Act the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-

1957, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-

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

by adding after paragraph (g) of subsection (1) the

following paragraph:—

(ga) for regulating the control and use of the Law Library, prescribing the persons per- mitted to use the Library, and forbidding the removal of books therefrom except for prescribed purposes.

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added. 3. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section six the following section:

Property

vested in	GA. The books, furniture, pictures and all other things now or hereafter in or used in connection with the Law Library are vested in and are the property of the Board.
Board.
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amended. 4. Section fifteen of the principal Act is amended

by adding to paragraph (d) a further proviso as

follows:—

Provided further that where the Board is satisfied that a person has fulfilled all the requirements of the University of Western Australia for the taking of a degree in law at that University, the Board may permit the person to enter upon the aforesaid term of articles before he has taken the degree: provided that where the person shall not take the degree within six months of entering upon his term of articles he shall be required as a condition of admission to serve a full term of two years under articles after taking the degree.

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amended. 5. Section twenty of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the passage in paragraph (d) commencing with the word "provided" in line two and ending with the word "thereafter" at the end of the paragraph the passage "provided that this paragraph shall not apply to a person who seeks admission for the first time and who relies for

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qualification for admission on the provisions of paragraph (c) or paragraph (d) of section fifteen of this Act."

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6. Section seventy-nine of the principal Act is amended.

amended by substituting for paragraph (6) the

following paragraph:

(6) without the written consent of the Board and subject to such conditions, as to period or otherwise, as the Board shall think fit, in any manner employ or remunerate, in connection with his practice as a legal practitioner, any person who to the knowledge of the practitioner has been struck off the roll and who has not been readmitted or who is suspended from practice under this Act.

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7. Section eighty-one of the principal Act is amended.

amended by substituting for the word "twenty" in

line eight the word "fifty".