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COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900

COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the admission of Solicitors of Courts of
British Possessions to the Supreme Courts in the United Kingdom.{1}
[10th July 1900]
Admission of solicitor of British possession.

COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900 - SECT 1

1. A solicitor of a superior court in a British possession to
which this Act applies, and who has been in practice before such
court for not less than three years, may on giving due notice and
the prescribed proof of his qualifications and good character, and
either on passing the prescribed examination or, in the prescribed
cases, without examination, and either after service of articles of
clerkship during the prescribed period, or, in the prescribed cases,
without such service, be admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court
on payment of the prescribed amount in respect of .... fees.

COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900 - SECT 2
Application of Act to British possessions.

2.(1) Where as respects a superior court in a British possession
Her Majesty the Queen in Council is satisfied, on the report of a
Secretary of State

(a)that the regulations respecting the admission of persons to be
solicitors of that superior court are such as to secure that those
solicitors possess proper qualifications and competency; and

(b)that by the law of the British possession the solicitors of the
Supreme Court will be admitted to be solicitors of the superior
court in the possession, on terms as favourable as those on which
it is proposed to admit solicitors of that superior court in
pursuance of this Act to be solicitors of the Supreme Court;

(2) Her Majesty in Council, by the same or any subsequent order
may, as respects the court and British possession named in the
order, provide for all matters authorised by this Act to be
prescribed, and for all matters appearing to Her Majesty to be
necessary or proper for giving effect to the order and to this
Act.

(3) Her Majesty in Council may revoke and vary any order previously
made under this Act.

COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900 - SECT 3
Definitions.

3.(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the
expressions "superior court" and "solicitor" mean respectively, as
respects any British possession, such court in the possession, and
such solicitor, attorney, law agent, or other person entitled to
practice as agent in a court of law in the British possession, as
may be prescribed.

(2) A part of a British possession under a local legislature may
be treated as a British possession for the purposes of this Act.

COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900 - SECT 5
Application of Act to Ireland.

5. In the application of this Act to Ireland the following
modification shall be made:

Articles of clerkship shall include indentures of apprenticeship.

COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900 - SECT 6
Modification in application of Act to different parts of the United
Kingdom.

6.(1) An Order in Council applying this Act to a court in a
British possession may provide that solicitors of that court may be
admitted by virtue of this Act to be solicitors in any part of
the United Kingdom, namely, England, Scotland, or Ireland, or in two
or one of those parts only.

(2) A person admitted under this Act to be a solicitor in one
part of the United Kingdom shall not, while remaining a solicitor
there, be admitted under this Act to be a solicitor in any other
part of the United Kingdom.

COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT 1900 - SECT 7
Short title.

7.(1) This Act may be cited as the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900.

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by SLR 1908

Schedule rep. by SLR 1908