ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS (WAR SERVICE) RULES 1948

GN No. 136 of 1948

These rules shall be cited as the Admission of Attorneys (War Service) Rules 1948.
Rule 174 of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1903, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-rules-
(vi) Provided further that the Chief Justice at his discretion
may permit any of the persons mentioned in sub-rules (i) to (v) of this rule to reckon, with a view to the admission of such person as an attorney, the whole, or ally part of the period, not exceeding in the aggregate three years, during which such person shall have been engaged in national service.
(vii) Provided further that for the purposes of the last preceding sub-rule national service shall mean or include (a) service in any of the naval, military or air services of the
Crown during the World War 1939-1945.
(b) detention during that period as a prisoner, military or civil, in any enemy country or internment during that period in an enemy or neutral country in consequence of the said World War;
(c) any public service connected with or consequent upon the said World War and being of a character approved by the Chief Justice.

C. A. G. LANE-Chief Justice, J. G. ESPITALIER-NOEL-Judge, W. E. FLANDERS-Judge.

Read and promulgated in open Court on this 14th May of June, 1948 and ordered to be published in the Government Gazette.