358 ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1856.
Admission of Practitioners in Supreme Court.
Striking off the 10. The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, in removing or striking off the names
rolls.
of barristers, attornies , solicitors, proctors or interpreters from the rolls of the said
Court, is not affected by this Ordinance.
Extension of 11. So much of the Act of Parliament passed in the sixth and
the 6 & 7 Vict.
c. 73. §§ 4, 5, seventh years of Her present Majesty chapter seventy-three, sections four ,
28, 29,
38, 39, 40, 41 , five, twenty -eight, twenty-nine, thirty-two, thirty- seven , thirty -eight,
and 43.
thirty-nine, forty , forty -one, and forty -three , as relates to the competence
of attornies or solicitors to have clerks bound by contracts under articles ,
the discharge of such contracts, service under such contracts when made
with disabled or disqualified persons , the time for making applications for
striking off the roll persons admitted and enrolled erroneously but without
fraud, the agency of attornies or solicitors for disqualified persons, the
delivery , reference, and taxation ( whether before payment or after) of
bills of fees, charges, and disbursements for any business done by attornies
or solicitors , applications of parties and orders of Court for delivery and
reference in such cases, and for delivery up of deeds , documents , or
papers, certificates of taxation and entering up of judgments , and the
conditions on which actions or suits may be commenced or maintained by
attornies or solicitors for the recovery of any fees , charges, or disbur
sements, shall, from the passing of this Ordinance ( but subject to the
provisions hereinafter contained ) extend to this Colony, and to all busi
ness now being done or to be hereafter done within the same.
Taxation may 12. If any person shall be desirous of obtaining, under section eleven ,
be had with
out order of the taxation of a bill of fees , charges , or disbursements , for any business
reference .
whatsoever done by an attorney, solicitor , or proctor, whether in an action or
suit or not in an action or suit, not relating thereto it shall not be necessary for
the said person to apply to the Supreme Court for any order in that behalf ;
but he shall be at liberty ( if he think fit ) to refer such bill of his own
authority to the Registrar or other Taxing Master of the said Court , who
shall thereupon proceed to tax the same in like manner as he would have
done under an order of reference for that purpose in conformity with the
Imperial Enactments, which by section eleven are extended to this Colony
in manner aforesaid.
Penalty on per 13. Any person not duly admitted as attorney, solicitor, or proctor of the said
sons unlawfully
practising or Supreme Court, who shall either directly or indirectly practise or act within this
acting as attor
nies, &c.
Colony as an attorney, solicitor, or proctor, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay