Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act 1977 (Qld)

271 QuunsI ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No0 28 of 1977 An Act to amend the L egal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act 1968 in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 21ST APRIL, 1977] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short . title and citation . (1) This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act 1977. (2) In this Act the Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act1968-1974 is referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act1968-I977. 2. Collective title of legal practitioners legislation . The Legal Practitioners Acts, 1881 to 1965 and the Lega Practitioners Acts Amendment Act 1968-1977 may be collectively cited as the legal Practitioners Acts 1881-1977. 3. Amendment of s. 7. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by- (a) in subsection (1), (i) omitting from paragraph ( a) the words " aged twenty-one years or more ";

272 Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act 1977, No. 28 (ii) omitting paragraph (c) and substituting the following paragraph:- (cc)) who is an officer within the meaning of the Public Service Act1922-1973 and has- (i) obtained at a University or at the Queensland Institute of Technology a degree in law approved by the Board; or (ii) completed the Solicitors' Board examinations, and has completed a period of 10 years' service as prescribed by subsection (2) of this section or, in the case of a person who, before the commencement of the Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act 1977, has commenced at a University a course leading to a. degree in law, has completed a period of 5 years' service as prescribed by that subsection;"; (b) in subsection (2), omitting paragraph (d) and substituting the following paragraph:- (d) may if the Board directs include service in the Defence Force of the Commonwealth but not so as to reduce the period of actual service to less than 6 years in the case of a person required by subsection (1) to have completed a period of 10 years' service and to less than 3 years in the case of a person required by that subsection to have completed a period of 5 years' service.".