Barristers and Solicitors Admission Act 1860

Public Act		1860 No 18
Date of assent		27 October 1860

	Title
	Preamble.
I	Short Title.
II	Persons entitled to be admitted as Barristers and Solicitors.
III	Barristers and Solicitors may be removed from the Roll on reasonable cause.
IV	Judges may make rules.
V	Duration of Act.

An Act to continue until the end of the next Session of the General Assembly, certain provisions for the admission of Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, Session III, No. 1., provision was made for the enrolment of certain persons as Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court, and for the making of Rules regulating the admission of Barristers and Solicitors to practice therein: And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Supreme Court Act, 1860,” the said Ordinance is repealed: And whereas it is intended hereafter to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the admission of Barristers and Solicitors and to the practice of the profession of the Law in New Zealand, but in the meantime it is necessary to continue the provisions of the said recited Ordinance, so far as the same relate to the enrolment and admission of Barristers and Solicitors:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—

I Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Barristers and Solicitors Admission Act, 1860.”

II Persons entitled to be admitted as Barristers and Solicitors.

In addition to other persons entitled by any Act or Ordinance of (he Legislature of New Zealand, there may be enrolled in the Supreme Court to practice therein as Barristers, such persons as shall have been admitted as Barristers or Advocates in Great Britain or Ireland; and to practice therein as Solicitors, such persons as shall have been admitted as Solicitors, Attorneys, or Writers in one of the Courts of Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or Proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, or shall have served such term of Clerkship with a Solicitor of the Court, not being less than 5 years, as shall be required by the general Rules thereof.

III Barristers and Solicitors may be removed from the Roll on reasonable cause.

All persons whosoever enrolled to practice as Barristers and Solicitors in the Supreme Court shall be removable from the Rolls of the Court, upon reasonable cause whensoever and wheresoever the same may have arisen.

IV Judges may make rules.

The Judges of the Supreme Court shall have power from time to time to make rules and regulations touching all matters whatsoever relating to the admission of Barristers and the examination and admission of Solicitors, as they may think fit.

V Duration of Act.

This Act shall continue in force until the end of the next Session of the General Assembly, and no longer.

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