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The Legal Practitioners (Amendment)Act, 1981 Short title.

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Preamble

"ACT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazetfe ol. CX1l, Ne. 72 dated 10th December, 1981 SiGNED this 2nd day of December, 1981. SIAKA STEVENS President LS No. 18 1981 NuSTI Sierra Leone The Legal Practitioners (Amendment)Act, 1981 Short title. Being an Act to amendthe Legal Practitioners Act so as to allow Barristers or Solicitorsserving their pupillage in the Judicial or Legal Service of the Government of Sierra Leone to practise or have a right of audience in the High Court during their period of pupillage; and for matters consequential or incidentalthereto. Date of I10th December, 1981]Commence BE IT ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in ment. this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

Section 1 — Paragraph (b) of sub-section (6) of Section 7A of the Amendment

Legal Pracitioners Act is hereby amended as follows;– of Section 3 of Cap. 1. 2 No. 18 Legal Practitioners (Amendment) 1981 (i) by deleting the semicolon at the end of sub-para graph (b) thereof and by substituting therefor a colon; and (ii) by adding immediately after sub-paragraph (b) the following proviso Provided that a person to whom a Certificate of Temporary Registration has been granted and who is in the Judicial or Legal Service of the Government of Sierra Leone shall be entitled to practise or have a right of audience in the High Court; ". Passed in Parliament this 10th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one. J. W.E. DAVIES, Clerk of Parliament THIs PRINTED ÎMPRESSION 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 PRJNTING DePARTMBNT, SIBRRA LeONE GAZETTE No. 72 OF 10TII DECEMOER, 1981

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