{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-solicitors-act-1900/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-solicitors-act-1900/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/63-64/14",
  "legislation_title": "Colonial Solicitors Act 1900",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-solicitors-act-1900",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Admission of solicitor of British possession.",
  "text": "A solicitor of a superior court in a British possession to which this Act applies, and who has been in practice before such court for not less than three years, may on giving due notice and the prescribed proof of his qualifications and good character, and either on passing the prescribed examination or, in the prescribed cases, without examination, and either after service of articles of clerkship during the prescribed period, or, in the prescribed cases, without such service, be admitted a solicitor of the Court of Judicature on payment of the prescribed amount in respect of . . .",
  "extent": "S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Finance Act 1947 (c. 35), Sch. 11 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 saved by South Africa Act 1962 (c. 23), Sch. 3 para. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/63-64/14/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:16.413080+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}