§ Lieut.-Colonel Sharpasked the Attorney-General what arrangements have been made to enable Servicemen whose articles to a solicitor for a fixed period of years have been interrupted by national service, to continue that training beyond the end of the period originally fixed for its termination.
§ The Attorney-GeneralProvisions for the computation of national service in a clerk's period of articles to a solicitor are contained in the Solicitor's (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1940. If an articled clerk does not wish to take advantage of these provisions he may, by agreement with the solicitor to whom he is articled, continue serving his articles for the full period of years required by the Solicitor's Act, 1932, on payment of Stamp Duty of ten shillings on further34W articles for the remainder of the term. If the solicitor to whom the clerk is articled has died or retired from practice in the meantime, or for any other reason is unable to accept the clerk under articles for the remainder of the statutory period, the Law Society uses its best endeavour to secure another principal with whom the clerk may finish the period under new articles. I know of no case in which it has not been possible to make the necessary arrangements.