Female Law Practitioners Act 1896

Public Act		1896 No 11
Date of assent		11 September 1896

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Women may become barristers and solicitors.

An Act to enable Women to practise the Profession of the Law.

Preamble.

WHEREAS women are now prevented by statute from exercising their talents in the study and practice of the law, and it is desirable that such disabilities shall no longer continue:

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

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act is “The Female Law Practitioners Act, 1896.”

2 Women may become barristers and solicitors.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in “The Law Practitioners Act, 1882,” and the Acts amending the same, any woman of the age of twenty-one years and upwards may be enrolled as a barrister or solicitor on passing the examinations required to be passed by males, and on payment of the fees and compliance with the law in that behalf.

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