Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1960 (WA)

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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

9° Elizabeth II., No. XVI.

No. 16 of 1960.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners

Act, 1893-1958.

[Assented to 6th October, 1960.]

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

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

Practitioners Act Amendment Act, 1960.

Reprinted in	(2) In this Act the Legal Practitioners Act,
Reprinted

Vol. 6 of The

Acts	1893-1958, is referred to as the principal Act.
Approved
for reprint,
30th Sep-
tember, 1953.	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act,
1893-1960.

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Sec. 25A

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

section twenty-five the following section:-

25A. The Secretary for the time being of the Law Society of Western Australia (Inc.) may, if so authorised by a resolution of the Council of that Society, make complaint in writing to the Board that a practitioner has been guilty of illegal or unprofessional conduct or of neglect or undue delay in the conduct of his profes- sional work, and upon inquiry by the Board into such complaint the Society may appear and be heard.

S. 62A

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

section sixty-two the following section:-

Costs where

62A. (1) Every practitioner employed by the Crown in a salaried capacity shall, while

practitioner

employed

by Crown

acting in his official capacity as a practitioner

in a salaried

capacity.

so employed, be deemed to be a certificated prac-

titioner.

(2) In all actions, causes, suits or matters of whatever kind in which a practitioner so employed acts, performs any work or renders any services in his official capacity for

(a) the Crown, whether in right of this State, the Commonwealth, or any other State of the Commonwealth;

(b) an agent of the Crown;

(c) a body, whether corporate or not, con- stituted by or under any Act, the whole or main portion of the revenue of which body is provided, pursuant to an Act, from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or money appropriated by Parliament at the time when the work is or the services are done, rendered or com- menced; or

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(d) a party who is or may be indemnified, or entitled to be indemnified, by the Crown, or by an agent of the Crown, or by a body referred to in paragraph (c) of this subsection,

the party for whom the practitioner so acts is entitled to and may recover counsel fees, costs, charges, disbursements and other remuneration in respect of any work performed or services rendered by the practitioner for the party in the same manner and to the same extent as if the practitioner so employed were a certificated practitioner in private practice engaged by that party.