Jersey Law 1/1984
OFFICE OF JUDICIAL GREFFIER (JERSEY) LAW, 1984.
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A LAW to remove the
qualification for the appointment of a person to the office of Judicial
Greffier and to make certain consequential provisions, sanctioned by Order of
Her Majesty in Council of the
21st day of DECEMBER, 1983
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(Registered on the
13th day of January, 1984).
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STATES OF JERSEY.
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The 14th day of June,
1983.
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THE
STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council,
have adopted the following Law: -
ARTICLE
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(1) It
shall no longer be an essential qualification for the appointment of a person
to the office of Judicial Greffier that he be an advocate or a solicitor or
that he has passed the qualifying examination for solicitors held in accordance
with the provisions of the Solicitors (Jersey) Law, 1971, and
accordingly the following provisions are repealed –
(a) paragraph
(7) of Article 2 of the Departments of the Judiciary and Legislature (Jersey)
Law, 1965, as amended;
(b) Article
9 of the Solicitors (Jersey) Law, 1971.
(2) In
Article 2 of the Advocates (Jersey) Law, 1968, as
amended –
(a) in
paragraph (2) the words “the Judicial Greffier” shall be deleted;
(b) in
paragraph (3) for the words “Her Majesty’s Solicitor General or the
Judicial Greffier” there shall be substituted the words “or Her
Majesty’s Solicitor General”.
(3) In
Article 3 of the Solicitors (Jersey) Law, 1971 –
(a) in
paragraph (2) the words “the Judicial Greffier” shall be deleted;
(b) in
paragraph (3) for the words “any two of Her Majesty’s Attorney
General, Her Majesty’s Solicitor General and the Judicial Greffier”
there shall be substituted the words “either Her Majesty’s Attorney
General or Her Majesty’s Solicitor General” and for the word
“four” there shall be substituted the word “five”.
ARTICLE
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This Law may be cited as Office of Judicial Greffier (Jersey) Law,
1984.
R.S. GRAY,
Deputy Greffier of the States