Supreme Court Practitioners Act 1853
Supreme Court Practitioners Act 1853
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Supreme Court Practitioners Act 1853
Supreme Court Practitioners Act 1853
Public Act |
1853 No 5 |
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Date of assent |
4 January 1853 |
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No. V.
An Ordinance to provide for the admission of Barristers, Attorneys, and Proctors, to practice in the Supreme Court other than those admissible under “The Supreme Court Ordinance,”
Session III., No. I.
Preamble.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, (Session III., No. 1,) and intituled “An Ordinance for establishing a Supreme Court,”
it is provided that no person but barristers or advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, or solicitors, attorneys, or writers in any of the Courts of Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, or who shall have served such term of clerkship with a solicitor of the Court as is required by the general rules thereof, or shall have established themselves in the exercise of their profession on or before the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, shall be enrolled in the Court to practice therein: And whereas it is expedient to extend such enrolment to all persons qualified to practice as barristers, attorneys, or proctors in the neighbouring Colonies of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land, and to all persons in Great Britain or Ireland as well as in Australia and Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand, who have served any portion of the term required by law to qualify them to practice as attorneys in those places on completion of the residue of such term in New Zealand:
1 All persons having been admitted as barristers attornies, &c., in the neighbouring Colonies may be enrolled.
Be it enacted by the Governor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Islands, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that all such persons as shall have been admitted as barristers, solicitors, attorneys, or proctors in any Court in Australia or Van Diemen’s Land, and all such persons as shall have served any portion of the term of clerkship required by law to qualify them to practice as solicitors or attorneys in Great Britain or Ireland, or in any part of Australia or Van Diemen’s Land or New Zealand, and shall have completed such term according to the rules of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in that behalf, may be enrolled to practice in the said Court upon making and signing such declaration of such previous admission or of such completed service, and on affording such proof thereof as the case shall require or as may be required by any rules hereafter to be made relative thereto; and such enrolment shall have the same force and effect to all intents and purposes within the jurisdiction of the said Supreme Court, as the enrolment of persons who had been admitted to practice as barristers in Great Britain or Ireland, or admitted as solicitors or attorneys in any of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh.
2 Commencement.
That this Ordinance shall come into operation from and after the day of the passing hereof.
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