Commonwealth Numbered Acts

JUDICIARY AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 164 of 1976 - SECT 12

12. Section 55B of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following sub-sections:-

''(4) A person who is, by virtue of this section, entitled to practise as a
barrister or solicitor, or as both, in any federal court has a right of
audience in any court of a State in relation to the exercise of federal
jurisdiction by that court.

''(5) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of a State may direct the
Registrar or other proper officer of that Supreme Court to keep a Register of
Practitioners for the purposes of sub-section (4) and, where such a Register
is kept in a State, a person is not entitled, in a court of that State, to the
right of audience referred to in sub-section (4) unless he is registered in
that Register.

''(6) Where a Register is kept in a State in accordance with sub- section (5),
a person who satisfies the Registrar or other officer keeping the Register
that he is a person referred to in sub-section (4) is entitled to be
registered in that Register.

''(7) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Supreme Court of a State
constituted by 2 or more Judges that a person who is registered in the
Register kept in that State in accordance with sub-section (5) has been guilty
of conduct that justifies it in so doing, the Supreme Court may order that
person's registration be cancelled or be suspended for a specified period, but
the Supreme Court may, at any time, order that the registration of the person
be restored or that the suspension be terminated.

''(8) The Registrar or other proper officer of the Supreme Court shall make
such alterations and notations in a Register kept by him as are required by
reason of orders of the Supreme Court under sub-section (7).

''(9) Notwithstanding sub-section (6), where the registration of a person has
been cancelled in accordance with sub-section (7) and has not been restored,
or is for the time being suspended, that person is not entitled again to be
registered in the Register except pursuant to an order under sub-section
(7).''.