Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1977 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

No. 46 of 1977.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners Act,

1893-1976.

[Assented to 18th November, 1977.]

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:—

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

tioners Act Amendment Act, 1977.

(2) In this Act the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-	Reprinted as
approved for

1976 is referred to as the principal Act.

reprint 23rd

August. 1974

and

amended by

Act No. 113

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may of 1976.

be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-1977.

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Section 6

amended. 2. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended

(a) by inserting immediately after subsection (1) subsections as follows

(la) Subject to subsection (lb) of this section, the Board may from time to time make all such rules as to the Board may seem meet for prescribing that with the approval of the Board portion of his articles may be served by an articled clerk with a practitioner other than the prac- titioner to whom he is articled including if the Board is satisfied that special cir- cumstances exist a practitioner who is not practising as a practitioner on his own account, and the conditions of such service.

(lb) Rules prescribed under subsection (la) of this section shall not continue in operation after the thirty-first day of December, 1979, but the expiry of those rules shall not affect the previous opera- tion thereof or the validity of any action taken under them. ; and

(b) as to subsection (2), by deleting the word "All", in line one, and inserting in lieu thereof the passage "Subject to subsection (lb) of this section, all".

Section 10

amended. 3. Section 10 of the principal Act is amended—

(a) as to subsection (3)-

(i) by inserting immediately after the word "time", in the last line of para- graph (a), the passage "and also except where the practitioner is the Director of Legal Aid appointed under section eighteen of the Legal Aid Commission Act, 1976, in which case the practitioner shall not have articled to him more than four articled clerks at the same time"; and

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(ii) by inserting immediately after the word "State", in the last line of the subsection, the passage "or the Director of Legal Aid appointed under section eighteen of the Legal Aid Commission Act, 1976"; and

(b) by inserting immediately after subsection

(3) a subsection as follows

(3a) The provisions in subsection (3) of this section relating to exceptions in respect of the Director of Legal Aid appointed under section eighteen of the Legal Aid Commission Act, 1976 shall not continue in operation after the thirty- first day of December, 1979, but the ex- piry of those provisions shall not affect the previous operation thereof or the validity of any action taken under them. .