This Act may be cited as the Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1952, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Law Practitioners Act 1931 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section forty-eight of the Statutes Amendment Act 1946 is hereby amended by omitting from subsection three the words “New Zealand Law Society”, and substituting the words “District Law Society in whose district the barrister or solicitor intends to practise”.

The said section forty-eight is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection three, the following new subsection:—

Section sixty-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “a Vice-President”, and substituting the words “two Vice-Presidents”.

Section three of the Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1935 is hereby amended by adding to paragraph (e) of subsection two the words “including all or any part of the costs and expenses of and incidental to any investigation of his conduct or of his trust account carried out by or for the New Zealand Law Society or any District Law Society”.

Section twenty-seven of the Law Practitioners Amendment Act 1935 is hereby amended as follows:—

Section twelve of the principal Act (as amended by section twenty-six of the Statutes Amendment Act 1942) is hereby further amended by adding to subsection two the following new paragraph:—