Colonial Solicitors Act 1900
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1900 c. 14 |
| Year | 1900 |
Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900
(63 & 64 Vict.) CHAPTER 14.
An Act to provide for the admission of Solicitors of Courts of British Possessions to the Supreme Courts in the United Kingdom.
[10th July 1900]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Admission of solicitor of British possession.
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 stamp duties and fees.
2 Application of Act to British possessions.
(1)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;
Her Majesty in Council may order that this Act shall apply, and the same shall accordingly apply to the said superior court and British possession, subject to any exceptions, conditions, and modifications specified in the order.
(2) (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) (3.) Her Majesty in Council may...
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