§ Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee read.
§ Moved, That the House do now resolve itself into Committee.—(Lord Darling.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ House in Committee accordingly:
§ [The EARL OF DONOUGHMORE in the Chair.]
§ Clause 1:
§ Employment of persons struck off the roll or suspended.
§ 1.—(1) No solicitor shall in connection with his practice as a solicitor without the written permission of the Society employ or remunerate any person who to the knowledge of such solicitor is struck off the roll of solicitors or is suspended from practising as a solicitor.
§ (4) If any solicitor shall act contrary to the provisions of this section or to the terms and conditions upon or subject to which any permission has been given thereunder an application may be made under the Solicitors Act, 1919, to the committee constituted under the Solicitors Act, 1888, as amended by the said Act of 1919, and those Acts shall apply accordingly.
§ LORD HANWORTH moved, in subsection (4), after "the said Act of 1919," to insert "and the committee may deal with such solicitor in accordance with their powers under those Acts." The noble and learned Lord said: This is really a drafting Amendment, and the purpose of it is to make explicit what is implicit in the Bill as it stands. The 842 present words to my mind are somewhat too tersely drawn, and it is necessary expressly to establish that the committee have the powers which it is intended by the Bill they shall have. I beg to move.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 1, page 1, line 26, after ("1919") insert the said words.—(Lord Hanworth.)
§ LORD DARLINGThis Bill, as I explained, was drawn by solicitors, and it seems to me that there would have been an advantage, as there often is, in having the drafting settled by learned Counsel. So far as I am concerned I accept the Amendment.
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 1, as amended, agreed to.
§ Remaining clauses agreed to.