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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 4221 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: I present supplementary explanatory memoranda for both these amendments and those that the Government will propose to the Legal Practitioners (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1997. I move:

Page 1, line 8, after subclause 2(1), insert the following subclause:

"(1A) Section 39 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act shall be taken to have come into operation on 23 September 1997.".

Page 1, line 9, subclause 2(2), omit "The", substitute "Subject to subsection (1A), the".

Page 2, line 6, clause 4, before paragraph (a), insert the following paragraph:

"(aa) by omitting the definition of `Admission Board' and substituting the following definition:

` "Admission Board" means the Legal Practitioners Admission Board;';".

Page 2, line 7, clause 4, paragraph (a), omit "definition of `barrister and solicitor' ", substitute "definitions of `barrister and solicitor' and `Roll of Barristers and Solicitors' ".

Page 2, line 17, clause 4, paragraph (b), add the following definition:

" `Roll of Legal Practitioners' means the roll kept under section 16C;".

Page 25, line 16, after subclause 21(1), insert the following subclauses:

"(1A) Where before the commencement of this section a person had lodged with the Court a notice under section 19 of the Mutual Recognition Act but had not become entitled to registration before that commencement, for the purpose of enabling the notice to be dealt with under the Principal Act as amended by this Act -

(a) the lodgment of the notice shall be taken to be the making of an application for enrolment under section 12 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act;

(b) the person on whose behalf the notice was lodged shall be taken to be the applicant; and

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