The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Law Practitioners Act Amendment Act 1867.”

The expression “the said Act” when used in this Act shall mean “The Law Practitioners Act 1861.”

Notwithstanding anything in the sixteenth section of the said Act to the contrary any person who shall have been bound by a contract in writing to serve as a clerk and shall have duly served under such contract as a clerk to a practising attorney solicitor writer or proctor in England or Wales Ireland Scotland Australia or Tasmania for and during the term of five years may subject in other respects to the provisions of the said Act and any Act amending the same be admitted and enrolled as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand if at any time after the expiration of such term of five years he shall have passed such examination in law and general knowledge as in the said Act is mentioned Provided he shall during the three years immediately preceding the passing such examination have served in New Zealand as solicitor’s clerk to a solicitor or solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

The fifty-seventh section of the said Act is hereby repealed and it is enacted that all fees payable and received under “The Law Practitioners Act 1861” and any Acts amending the same or any of them shall form one common fund and be applied in such proportions and in such manner as the judges of the Supreme Court or any three or more of them shall from time to time direct in the purchase and maintenance of law libraries at such towns in New Zealand as such judges or any three or more of them shall appoint and all such libraries shall be for the use of the Supreme Court and the barristers and solicitors of such court.

The provisions contained in the fifty-eighth section of the said Act shall apply to any library already established under the fifty-seventh section hereby repealed and continued after the passing of this Act and also to any such library as aforesaid established under and after the passing of this Act.