HC Deb 21 May 1935 vol 302 c985

5.2 p.m.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL

I beg to move, in page 117, line 19, at the end, to insert: Provided that—

  1. (i) a person shall not be qualified for appointment as Chief Justice of India unless he is, or when first appointed to judicial Office was, a barrister, a member of the Faculty of Advocates or a pleader; and
  2. (ii) in relation to the Chief Justice of India, for the references in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this sub-section to ten years there shall be substituted references to fifteen years.?
This provision is to implement a promise given on the Committee stage that nobody should be qualified for appointment to the Office of chief magistrate of India unless he was a barrister or pleader of 15 years' standing.

Amendment agreed to.