Legal Practitioners.
Ordinance or under any other Ordinance, be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars: Provided that this section shall not extend to any public officer drawing or preparing any such papers in the course of his duty.
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44. No costs in respect of anything done by any unqualified person who acts as a solicitor shall be recoverable in any action, suit or matter by any person whomsoever.
45. (1) No solicitor shall wilfully and knowingly act as agent in any action or in any matter in bankruptcy for any unqualified person, or permit his name to be made use of in any such action or matter upon the account, or for the profit, of any unqualified person or send any process to any unqualified person, or do any other act enabling any unqualified person to appear, act or practise in any respect as a solicitor in any such action or matter.
(2) Where it appears to the court, that a solicitor has acted in contravention of this section, his name shall be struck off the roll.
(3) Where the court orders the name of a solicitor to be struck off the roll in respect of an offence under this section, it may further order that the unqualified person who was enabled by the conduct of the offender to act or practise as a solicitor shall be imprisoned for one year.
46. (1) If any act is done by a body corporate or by any director, officer or servant thereof, of such a nature or in such a manner as to be calculated to imply that the body corporate is qualified, or recognized by law as qualified, to act as a solicitor the body corporate shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars, and in the case of an act done by a director, officer or servant of the corporation, he also shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
(2) For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that in sections 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 and in subsection (1) of section 45 references to unqualified persons and references to persons include references to bodies corporate.
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22 and 23, Geo. 5, c. 37, s. 50.
22 and 23, Geo. 5, c. 37, s. 51.
24 and 25, Geo. 5, c. 45, s. 1.
Legal Practitioners.
Ordinance or under any other Ordinance, be liable on sum- mary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars: Provided that this section shall not extend to any public officer drawing or preparing any such papers in the course of his duty.
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unqualified
44. No costs in respect of anything done by any No costs for unqualified person who acts as a solicitor shall be recoverable person. in any action, suit or matter by any person whomsoever.
45. (1) No solicitor shall wilfully and knowingly act as agent in any action or in any matter in bankruptcy for any unqualified person, or permit his name to be made use of in any such action or matter upon the account, or for the profit, of any unqualified person or send any process to any unquali- fied person, or do any other act enabling any unqualified person to appear, act or practise in any respect as a solicitor in
any such action or matter.
(2) Where it appears to the court, that a solicitor has acted in contravention of this section, his name shall be struck off the roll.
(3) Where the court orders the name of a solicitor to be struck off the roll in respect of an offence under this section, it may further order that the unqualified person who was enabled by the conduct of the offender to act or practise as a solicitor shall be imprisoned for one year.
46. (1) If any act is done by a body corporate or by any director, officer or servant thereof, of such a nature or in such a manner as to be calculated to imply that the body corporate is qualified, or recognized by law as qualified, to act as a solicitor the body corporate shall be liable on sum- mary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars, and in the case of an act done by a director, officer or servant of the corporation, he also shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
(2) For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that in sections 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 and in subsection (1) of section 45 references to unqualified persons and references to persons include references to bodies corporate.
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22 and 23, Geo. 5,
c. 37, s. 50.
to act as
Solicitor not agent for person. Geo. 5,
unqualified
22 and 23,
c. 37, s. 51.
Application provisions corporate. Geo. 5
of penal
to body
24 and 25,
c. 45, s. 1,
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