Legal Practitioners Amendment Act 1981 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

No. 90 of 1981.

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners Act

1893-1979.

[Assented to 26 November 1981 1

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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	and citation.
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Practitioners Amendment Act 1981.

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

1979 is referred to as the principal Act.	reprint 12
January 1981.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act 1893-1981.

No. 90.] Legal Practioners. [1981.

Section 4

amended. 2. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended

(a) in subsection (1), by deleting paragraph (d) and substituting the following para- graph

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(d) Nine practitioners of at least three years' standing and practice in the State, who shall be annually elected, by the practitioners on the roll of the Supreme Court residing and practising in the State, at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by the rules. " ; and

(b) by repealing subsection (2) and substitut- ing the following subsections-

'' (2) If nine practitioners are not elected as members of the Board at any annual election or if, for any other reason, there are at any time fewer than nine elected members of the Board, the Board may appoint one or more practitioners who would be eligible for election to complete the Board.

(2a) Any four members of the Board

form a quorum. "

Section 9

amended. 3. Section 9 of the principal Act is amended in

paragraph (a) by deleting "a British subject,".

Section 15

amended. 4. Section 15 of the principal Act is amended in

subsection (1) by deleting "a British subject".