§ (1) Rules made under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of section one of this Act shall not apply to a solicitor who holds an office to which this section applies and who does not engage in private practice as a solicitor, and, in the case of a solicitor who holds such an office and who engages in private practice as a solicitor, such rules shall not apply to him except so far as regards moneys received, held, or paid by him in the course of such private practice.
§ (2) The offices to which this section applies are the offices of clerk of the peace of a county, deputy clerk of the peace of a county, clerk of a county council, deputy clerk of a county council, and clerk of the lieutenancy, and any other office connected with the administration of the county to which a poison has, whilst holding any of the offices above mentioned, been appointed by the court of quarter sessions or the county council, or a joint committee of the court of quarter sessions and the county council or a committee of either of them.—[Mr. A. Somerville.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ 11.6 a.m.
§ Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLEI beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time."
This Clause, which is put forward on behalf of the County Council's Association, was to be moved by the hon. and gallant Member for Tiverton (Lieut. Colonel Acland-Troyte), but he is unavoidably absent, so that it falls to me to move it. I understand that it is an agreed Clause, and it therefore needs very little comment on my part. It extends, as I understand it, to solicitors who are officers of local authorities and who also engage in private practice, so as to exempt them from the provisions of Section 1 of the Bill, so far as their duties to the local authorities are concerned. Their private practice remains unaffected. I think that that is the main point with regard to the Amendment.
§ Mr. ROY BIRDI beg to second the Motion.
§ Question, "That the Clause be read a Second time," put, and agreed to.
§ Clause added to the Bill.