Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1958 (WA)

No. 27.] Legal Practitioners (No. 2). [1958.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS

(No. 2).

7° Elizabeth II., No. XXVII.

No. 27 of 1958.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners Act,

1893-1957.

[Assented to 19th November, 1958.]

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:—

Short title

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

Practitioners Act Amendment Act (No. 2), 1958.

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

1955, is referred to as the principal Act.

1958.] Legal Practitioners (No. 2). [No. 27.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893-

1958.

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2. Section thirteen of the principal Act is	repealed and
re-enacted.

repealed and re-enacted as follows-

13. No articled clerk shall, without the

written consent of the practitioner to whom he is articled, which consent shall be filed with the Board by the articled clerk within fourteen days of its being granted, hold any office or engage in any employment other than as a

bona fide articled clerk to the practitioner to

whom he is articled for the time being or his partner. Such written consent of the practi- tioner shall not be given to an articled clerk unless the hours of such other office or employ- ment are outside the hours of between nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon on those week days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) when the offices of legal practitioners are normally open to the public.

Provided that in the event of the practitioner refusing to give his consent, the articled clerk shall have the right of appeal to the Board.