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Solicitors Act 1894

As Enacted Cited authorities 1 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1894 c. 9
Year1894


Solicitors Act, 1894

(57 & 58 Vict.) CHAPTER 9.

An Act to amend the provisions of the Solicitors Act, 1877, relating to the Examination of Persons applying to be admitted Solicitors of the Supreme Court in England.

[18th June 1894]

B E 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:

S-1 Short title and construction.

1 Short title and construction.

1. This Act may be cited as theSolicitors Act, 1894, and shall be construed together with the Solicitors Act, 1877.

S-2 Interpretation.

2 Interpretation.

2. Words and expressions to which meanings are assigned by the Solicitors Act, 1877, have in this Act the same respective meanings.

S-3 Power of Society to exempt from intermediate examination persons who have taken certain degrees, &c.

3 Power of Society to exempt from intermediate examination persons who have taken certain degrees, &c.

3. It shall be lawful for the Incorporated Law Society, by regulations made under section six of the Solicitors Act, 1877, to exempt from the whole or from any part of the intermediate examination persons who have, before the passing of this Act, obtained, or who shall hereafter obtain, the degree of bachelor of civil law or bachelor of laws or bachelor of law or a certificate of having passed the examination required for such degree at any university in the United Kingdom, or any such other degree or distinction in any school or faculty of law or jurisprudence at any university in the United Kingdom as shall be from time to time specified in the regulations.

A person exempted from the whole of the intermediate examination may be admitted as a solicitor without a certificate of having passed such examination, and a person exempted from part of the intermediate examination may be admitted as a solicitor if he has obtained a certificate of having passed the part or parts of the examination from which he is not exempted.

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