Section 7A, **The Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 1980**

(1) A temporary register shall be kept for the registration of pupil barristers who are— (*a*) reading in the Chambers of a practising barrister under sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of this Act; or No. 4 *Legal Practitioners (Amendment)* 1980 31 (*b*) in the judicial or legal service of the Government of Sierra Leone under sub-paragraph (vi) of paragraph (*b*) of subsection (1) of section 3 of this Act. (2) The Chief Justice may approve and cause to be entered in the temporary register any person who— (*a*) is entitled to practise as a barrister in England, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland or as an advocate in Scotland, and (*b*) produces testimonials sufficient to satisfy the Chief Justice that he is a person of good character. (3) Any person who shall desire to be registered in the temporary register shall deposit in the office of the Master for custody therein, his certificate of call to the Bar or admission as an advocate together with a copy thereof, and shall file in the court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice. (4) After any person has been registered in the temporary register the original of the Certificate of call to the Bar or admission as an advocate shall be returned to him on demand. (5) Any person so registered in the temporary register shall be granted a Certificate of Temporary Registration under the seal of the Court by the Master. (6) Any person to whom a Certificate of Temporary Registration is granted— (*a*) shall have a right of audience in any Magistrate or District Appeal Court in Sierra Leone in all criminal and civil matters; (*b*) shall not be entitled to practise or have a right of audience in the Superior Court of Judicature or before any Commission of Inquiry presided over by a Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature or a person who has held office as a Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, for a period of one year; (*c*) shall not practise as a solicitor, or render any services or do any work normally performed by a solicitor in England. 32 No. 4 *Legal Practitioners (Amendment)* 1980 (7) The fee for registration in the temporary register shall be twenty leones. (8) The enrolment fee for a person admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor of the Court shall be one hundred leones.". Passed in Parliament this *14th* day of *January* in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty. J. W. E. DAVIES, *Clerk of Parliament.* THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. W. E. DAVIES, *Clerk of Parliament.* PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE *GAZETTE* No. 11 OF 28TH FEBRUARY, 1980