PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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applying the Act to a Court in a British Posses- sion may provide that solicitors of that Court may be admitted by virtue of the said 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.

And whereas application has been made. by the Governor of the Colony of Natal that the said Act may be applied to that Colony.

And whereas His Majesty in Council on the report of the Secretary of State for the Colonies is satisfied that the regulations respect- ing the admission of persons to be attorneys of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Natal are such as to secure that those attorneys possess proper qualifications and competency and that by the law of the Colony of Natal the solicitors of the Supreme Court in England and Ireland and Law Agents in Scotland will be admitted to be attorneys of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Natal on terms as favourable as those on which it is proposed to admit attorneys of that Court in pursuance of the said Act to be solicitors of the Supreme Court.

Now therefore His Majesty in pursuance of the said recited Act and in execution of the powers thereby in His Majesty vested is pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to Order and it is hereby Ordered that the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900, shall apply to the Supreme Court of the Colony of Natal and to the Colony of Natal and that attorneys of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Natal may be admitted by virtue of the said Act to be solicitors in England and in Ireland, and Law Agents in Scotland subject to the conditions hereinafter specified.

(1.) An attorney of the said Supreme Court of the Colony of Natal (hereinafter called the applicant) who, having been in practice before such Court for not less than 3 years, is desirous of being admitted to be a solicitor of the Supreme Court in England or Ireland or a Law Agent in Scotland shall be a male British subject.

(2.) The applicant shall, four calendar months at least before the first day of the month in which he proposes to be admitted, leave with the Registrar of Solicitors or in the case of Scotland with the Registrar of Law Agents his original certificate of admission in the said Supreme Court

of the said Colony together with

(a) a certificate from the authority of the said Colony in whose custody the roll of the attorneys of the said Court is kept stating that his name is still upon the roll and has never been removed there- from and that no order has ever been made directing him to be suspended from practising his profession

(b) one or more certificates of fitness and character signed by two resident practising attorneys of at least five years standing in the said Court and by at least one of the Judges or officers next in rank of such Court

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(c) a statutory declaration in terms of or to the effect of that set out in the Schedule (A) hereunto annexed.

(3.) The leaving of the before-mentioned documents shall be equivalent to notice of intention to apply for admission within the meaning of the Acts regulating the admission of Solicitors in England and Ireland respectively.

(4.) A certificate under the hand of the Regis trar of Solicitors that the applicant has complied with the provisions of the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900, and of this Order, shall be equivalent to the certificate of his having passed the Final Examination required in England and Ireland respectively..

(5.) The application for admission to be a solicitor in England shall be made to the Master of the Rolls and for the like admission in Ireland to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

(6.) The applicant in England or Ireland shall not be required to pass any examination either before or after making such application.

(7.) The admission of the applicant as a solicitor in England or Ireland shall be stamped with the stamps required to be impressed on the admission of solicitors in England and Ireland

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