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to persons duly admitted as attorneys and solicitors in such colony or dependency after service and examination, that is to say, no attorney or solicitor of any such colony or dependency shall be admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court in England unless, in addition to the requirements of the Colonial Attorneys Belief Act, he prove by affidavit that he has served for five years under articles of clerkship to a solicitor or attorney-at-law in such colony or dependency, and passed an examination to test his fitness and capacity before he was admitted an attorney or solicitor in such colony or dependency, and, further, that he has since been in actual practice as attorney or solicitor in such colony or dependency for the period of seven years at the least: And whereas application has been made by Sir William Drummond Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.8., Governor of the Colony of Now Zealand, that the Colonial Attorneys Belief Acts may be directed to come into operation within the said colony : And whereas it has been shown to the satisfaction of the Earl of Derby, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the system of jurisprudence as administered in the Colony of New Zealand answers to and fulfils the condition sepecified in section three of the said Act, and also that the attorneys or solicitors of the superior Courts of law or equity in England are admitted as attorneys and solicitors in the superior Courts of law and equity of New Zealand on production of their certificates of admission in the English Courts, without service or examination in New Zealand, except in the laws of the colony in so far as they differ from the laws of England: Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above-recited Acts, and in execution of the powers thereby in Her Majesty vested, Her Majesty is pleased, with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that, from and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council by the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony, the Colonial Attorneys Belief Act shall, subject to the qualifications enacted by " The Colonial Attorneys Belief Act Amendment Act, 1884," come into operation as to the Colony of New Zealand, although persons may, in certain cases, be admitted as attorneys or solicitors in the said colony without possessing all the qualifications for admission, or having fulfilled the conditions specified in section, three of the said Act. And the Eight Honourable Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies is to give the necessary instructions herein accordingly. C. L. Peel.

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