Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1964 (WA)

No. 74J Legal Practitioners. [1964.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

13° Elizabeth II., No. LXXIV.

No. 74 of 1964.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners Act,

1893-1963.

[Assented to 11th December, 1964.]

RE 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:—

Short title

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

Practitioners Act Amendment Act, 1964.

Reprinted

Vo/. 6	(2)	In this Act the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-
Reprinted

Acts	1963, is referred to as the principal Act.
approved for
reprint 30th

September,	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act
1953 and

further	may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-
amended by
Acts Nos. 9	1964.

of 1955.

11 of 1957,

4 of 1958,

27 of 1958,

16 of 1960 and

15 of 1963.

1964. Legal Practitioners. [No. 74.

2. The second proviso to section ten of the B.10 amended.

principal Act is amended by adding after the word,

"practitioner" in lines two and three of the proviso,

the words, "at any time during a period of five years

next following the date of his admission as a	.15
smended.
practitioner".	.

3. Section fifteen of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by inserting immediately after the section number, "15." in line one, the subsection designation, "(1)" ; and
(b)	by adding at the end of the section, the following subsection

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the last proviso to paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section, if in the opinion of the Board the circumstances of the case warrant it so doing, the Board may, without requiring compliance with the provisions of that proviso by a person whom it permits or since the first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty- two, has permitted to enter upon a term of articles before taking the degree in law and who fails or has failed to take that degree within six months of so entering upon that term of articles, grant to that person the certificate referred to in para- graph (b) of section twenty of this Act upon his serving the required period of two years under articles and taking the degree at any time during that period.