Legal Practitioners Amendment Act 1996 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS

AMENDMENT ACT 1996

No. 75 of 1996

AN ACT to amend the Legal Practitioners Act 1893.

[Assented to 13 November 1996]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1.   This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Amendment

Act 1996.

No. 75] Legal Practitioners Amendment Act 1996

s. 2

Commencement

2. This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Section 31AA amended

3. Section 31AA (1) of the Legal Practitioners Act 1893* is amended by deleting ‘‘in Australia, an external territory of Australia, or New Zealand,’’ and substituting the following —

‘‘ , whether in Australia or elsewhere, ’’

[* Reprinted as at 25 March 1993.

For subsequent amendments see 1995 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 125.]

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Acting Government Printer