Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 1977 (ACT)

No. 20 of 1977

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Legal Practitioners Ordinance 1970.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated this twenty-second day of June, 1977.

JOHN R. KERR Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT Attorney-General.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1977

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amend­

ment) Ordinance 1977.*

2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Legal Practitioners Ordinance 1970.f

3 . Section 6L of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting the word and figures " 1 July 1977 " and substituting the word and figures " 1 October 1977 ".

4 . Section 5 of the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Ordinance

(No. 2) 1976 is repealed.

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

5. On and after 1 October 1977, the Interpretation Ordinance 1967 has effect in relation to the provisions of Part ID of the Principal Ordin­ ance, as amended by this Ordinance, as if those provisions had been repealed on that day by an Ordinance.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 24 June 1977.

t Ordinance No. 43, 1970 as amended by No. 51, 1970; No. 9, 1971; No. 4, 1972; No. 2, 1973; No. 5, 1974;

Nos. 1, 22 and 45, 1975; and Nos. 28 and 68, 1976.