Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

1963.] Legal Practitioners. [No. 15.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

12° Elizabeth II., No. XV.

No. 15 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners

Act, 1893-1960.

[Assented to 5th November, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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. (1) This Act may be cited as the Legal Short title

Practitioners Act Amendment Act, 1963. citation.

In this Act the Legal Practitioners Act, Minted

(2) Reprinted

1893-1960, is referred to as the principal Act.

Acts

approved

for reprint

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act NiTbseP. -

may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act, Mir

amended by

1893-1963.	Acts Nos. 9 of 1955, 11 of 1957, 4 of
1958, 27 of 1958, and 16

of 1960.

No. 15.] Legal Practitioners. [1963.

S. 33 am. 2. Section thirty-three of the principal Act is

amended-

(a)	by adding after the section number, "33", the subsection designation, "(1)";
(b)	by adding after the word, "that" in the second last line, the passage, "the appli- cant for re-admission has satisfied the Board that he is, in the opinion of the Board, a fit and proper person to be re-admitted and that"; and

(c) by adding the following subsections:

(2) For the purposes of enabling the Board to inquire as to whether the applicant for re-admission is a fit and proper person to be so re-admitted, the Board may

(a)	by summons require any per- son, who the Board or the applicant for re-admission desires to be so summoned, to attend before the Board as a witness and give evidence or to produce any documents in his possession or power that relates or relate to any matter in question at the inquiry;
(b)	examine any such witness on oath or affirmation and for that purpose the person acting as Chairman of the Board at the inquiry may administer oaths or affirmations.

(3) The provisions of section twenty- eight of this Act apply to a summons issued by the Board pursuant to this section. .

5. 83 am. 3. Section eighty-three of the principal Act is

amended by adding after the word, "Act" in line six, the passage, ", section thirty-three of this Act".