Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1965 (Qld)

129 ANNO QUARTO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 8 of 1965 An Act to Amend "The Legal Practitioners Acts, 1881 to 1961," in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 21ST APRIL. 1965] 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. (1) Short title . This Act may be cited as " The Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1965." (2) Collective title . " The Legal Practitioners Acts, 1881 to 1961." and this Act may be collectively cited as " The Legal Practitioners Acts, 1881 to 1965." (3) Principal Act. " The Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act of 1938," as subsequently amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. 5

130 Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1965, No. 8 2. (1) Amendment of s. 9 (1). Subsection (1) of section nine of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subparagraph (h) the following subparagraph:- (bb) any branch or section (other than the offices of the Solicitor- General and the Crown Solicitor) of the Chief Office of the Department of Justice." (2) The provisions of this section shall be deemed to have had force and effect as from the coming into operation of the Principal Act, and any reference in any Act, rule, or other instrument, including this Act, to section nine of " The Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act of 1938," as it was in force immediately prior to the passing of " The Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1961," shall be read accordingly. 3. Transitional amendments . In applying, after the commencement of this Act, the provisions of section nine of " The Legal Practitioners Act Amendment Act of 1938," as it was in force immediately prior to the passing of " The Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1961," in respect of any person who at the time of the passing of " The Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1961," was serving or had served in an office mentioned in subsection (1) of the said section nine (as amended by this Act), the said provisions shall be read as if- (a) in subsection (1) of that section, the words " and where the whole or any part of the aforesaid service of ten years has been in an office mentioned in paragraph (d) or paragraph (e) hereof, has also passed the qualifying examination as prescribed for clerks of petty sessions pursuant to the Public Service Regulations " had been always omitted from that subsection; (b) in subsection (3) of that section, the words "and who, if prescribed in his case by the said subsection one, has also passed the qualifying examination as prescribed pursuant to the Public Service Regulations for clerks of petty sessions," had been always omitted from that subsection; and (c) in subsection (4) of that section, the words "at any time thereafter while he is in any service as prescribed by the said subsection (1) " had been always substituted for the words " upon the completion of a further year of service as prescribed." 4. Amendments of s. 3 of No . 35 of 1961 . Section three of " The Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1961 " is amended by- (a) in the first paragraph, omitting the words " the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four," and inserting in their stead, the words " the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six or if some other day in substitution thereof is fixed by the Governor in Council by Order in Council published in the Government Gazette, then on that day "; and

Legal Practitioners Acts Amendment Act of 1965, loo. 8 131, (b) inserting after the words "the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seventy ", where twice occurring, the words " or such other date in substitution thereof as may be fixed by the Governor in Council by Order in Council published in the Government Gazette ".