§ Mr. O'CONNORasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Government will introduce some Measure which will put Irish solicitors in the same position as Colonial solicitors to whom the Colonial Solicitors Act now applies?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI would refer the hon. Member to Section 3 of the Irish Free State Constitution Act, 1922, under which it will be open to the Parliament of the Irish Free State to provide that the Colonial Solicitors Act. 1900, may be applied to the Irish Free State as it may be applied to the other self-governing Dominions. On such provision being made, the Irish Free State will, for the purposes of the Colonial Solicitors Act, be in the same position as the other self-governing Dominions, and it will be possible, to extend the benefit of the Act to solicitors of the Superior Court of the Irish Free State, subject to the like conditions upon which the benefits may be extended to solicitors of Superior Courts in the other Dominions.