Practitioners Admission Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 151

RULE UNDER THE JUDICIARY ACT 1903*

We, Justices of the High Court of Australia, hereby make the following Rule of Court under the Judiciary Act 1903.

Dated this fourteenth day of August 1978.

G. E. BARWICK

Chief Justice

H. T. GIBBS

Justice

N. M. STEPHEN

Justice

(L.S.)

K. S. JACOBS

Justice

L. K. MURPHY

Justice

K. A. AICKIN

Justice

L. B. FOLEY

Principal Registrar

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 August 1978.

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AMENDMENT OF THE PRACTITIONERS ADMISSION RULES*

The Practitioners Admission Rules are amended by adding at the end thereof the following rule:

Cessation of admission of students and examinations

“ 28. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding provisions of these Rules—

(a) the Board or a Committee shall not admit a person as a student-at-law after the commencement of this rule; and

(b) a student-at-law or person to whom rule 21a applies may not undertake an examination referred to in rule 11 after 31 December 1979.”.

 

* Statutory Rules 1908, No. 35 as amended by Statutory Rules 1913, No. 330; 1914, No. 148; and 1939, No. 43.