Preamble, **The Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 1980**

29 SIGNED this *26th* day of *February, 1980.* SIAKA STEVENS, *President.* (LS) No. 4 [Coat of arms of Sierra Leone] 1980 Sierra Leone **The Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 1980** [Margin: Short title.] **Being an Act to amend the Legal Practitioners Act and to make provisions for a barrister to serve his period of pupillage in Sierra Leone subsequent to his call or admission to the Bar; To provide a system of temporary registration for such pupil barristers; And for matters consequential or incidental thereto** [*28th February, 1980.*] [Margin: Date of Commencement.] BE IT ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:— **1.** Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 3 of the Legal Practitioners Act (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act") is hereby amended as follows— [Margin: Amendment of Section 3 of Cap 11.] 30 No. 4 *Legal Practitioners (Amendment)* 1980 (*a*) by repealing and replacing sub-paragraph (iv) thereof by the following new sub-paragraph— "(iv) has subsequent to his call or admission read in Sierra Leone for at least one year in the Chambers of a practising barrister of at least ten years standing; or" and (*b*) by repealing and replacing sub-paragraph (vi) thereof by the following new sub-paragraph (vi). "(vi) has subsequent to his call or admission been in the judicial or legal service of the Government of Sierra Leone for an aggregate period of at least two years:" and (*c*) by deleting the proviso to paragraph (*b*) and by adding immediately after sub-paragraph (vi), the following new proviso— "Provided that in computing the time of pupillage for the purpose of sub-paragraphs (iv) or (vi) above, when a barrister changes his pupillage— (1) by entering the judicial or legal service from the Chambers of a practising barrister, or (2) by entering the Chambers of a practising barrister from the judicial or legal service, before the expiration of his period of pupillage specified either in sub-paragraph (iv) or in sub-paragraph (vi), then the unexpired period consequent to such change of pupillage shall be reckoned on a *pro rata* basis on the proportion of one year pupillage in sub-paragraph (iv) being equivalent to two years pupillage in sub-paragraph (vi) whenever a change of pupillage is made.". **2.** The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 7, and shall have effect as section 7A of the principal Act— [Margin: Insertion of a new Section 7A in the principal Act.] [Margin: "Temporary Register for pupil barristers.]