Practitioners Admission Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 148.

 

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.

 

RULES OF COURT.

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As of Saturday the tenth day of October a.d.1914.

It is ordered as follows:—

The “Practitioners Admission Rules” of the 16th day of March, 1908, shall be amended as follows:—

1. Rule 11 of the said Rules shall be amended by substituting the word “pass” for the words “produce to the Board certificates of having passed”, and by inserting before the word “evidence” the words “produce to the Board”.

2. Rule 12 of the said Rules shall be amended by prefixing the words “The subjects of the Intermediate Examination shall be Jurisprudence (including Roman Law) and Constitutional History and Law;”, and by substituting the words “such subjects” for the words “the following subjects, that is to say: Jurisprudence (including Roman Law)and Constitutional History and Law.”

3. Rule 16 of the said Rules shall be amended—

(a) by substituting the words “sections i, ii, and iii” for the words “sections i and ii”;

(b) by inserting after the word “state” the words “so that the standard of proficiency required for passing such examination be such as the Board may recognise as sufficient”; and

(c) by omitting the last two paragraphs of the said Rule.

4. The following Rule shall stand as Rule 16a of the said Rules:—

“16a. Examinations shall be conducted by persons appointed by the Board for that purpose.”

5. Rule 18 of the said Rules shall be amended by substituting the words “the effect of Form 6 or Form 7” for the words “that effect.”

 

6. The following Rules shall stand as Rules 21a and 22a of the said Rules:—

“21a. The following persons that is to say:—

(1) Every person who satisfies the Board that he has—

(a) completed a period of ten years’ service as an officer in a Registry of the High Court, and that he has, during the last five of such ten years, been intrusted with duties requiring professional knowledge of law; or

(b) completed a period of ten years’ service as a Clerk in the Office of the Crown Solicitor for the Commonwealth (including any Branch Office at the capital of a State), and that he has, during the last five of such ten years, been in charge of a sub-department of the Office, and intrusted therein with duties requiring professional knowledge of law; or

(c) completed a like period of ten years’ service partly in a Registry of the High Court and partly in the Office of the Crown Solicitor for the Commonwealth, and has, during the last five of such ten years, been charged with such duties as aforesaid:

(2) Every person who satisfies the Board that he has completed a period of five years' service as an officer in a Registry of the High Court or in the Office of the Crown Solicitor for the Commonwealth (including any Branch Office at the capital of a State), or partly in a Registry of the High Court and partly in such office, and that he has, for the last two years of such period, been Chief Clerk or Clerk in Charge of a Branch Office,

shall have the status and shall be entitled to the privileges of a Student-at-law who has passed the Intermediate Examination, and shall be entitled to submit himself at any time thereafter for the Final Examination, but shall not otherwise be subject to the foregoing provisions of these Rules imposing obligations upon students-at-law.”

“22a. The Board shall, before granting a certificate in Form 8 to any of the persons mentioned in Rule 21a, require satisfactory evidence to be furnished that such person is of good fame and character, and fit to be admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor.”

7. Rule 25 of the said Rules shall be amended—

(a) by substituting, after the words “application for” where they secondly appear in that Rule, the words “exemption from” for the words “Certificate of passing (or exemption from)”;

 

(b) by inserting after those words, where they thirdly appear in that Rule, the words “Intermediate or” and by omitting the words “in section iii”; and

(c) by omitting the words “application for” where they fourthly and fifthly appear in the Rule.

8. Form 7 shall be amended by omitting the words “i and ii,” leaving a blank in lieu thereof.

S. W. GRIFFITH, C.J.

EDMUND BARTON, J.

ISAAC A. ISAACS, J.

(l.s.) FRANK GAVAN DUFFY, J.

CHAS. POWERS, J.

G. E. RICH, J.

J. W. O’HALLORAN,

Principal Registrar.

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