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Section 105 Solicitors to be officers of court.

United Kingdom

(1)

Any person duly admitted as a solicitor in Northern Ireland or entitled to practise therein as a solicitor shall be an officer of the F1Court of Judicature, but nothing in this subsection shall affect the operation of any statutory provision (including a provision contained in this Act) which imposes on officers of a court restrictions as to practice as solicitors.

(2)

References in any statutory provision in force in Northern Ireland to attorneys or proctors shall be construed as references to solicitors of the Court of Judicature.

Annotations

Textual amendments

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S. 105(1)(2): words substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 6(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)