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SOLICITOR GENERAL AND CROWN ADVOCATE
(AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The object of this Bill is to make it clear that the Solicitor General and the Crown
Advocate can engage in the practice of law outside the duties of office, but on an
unremunerated basis.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the proposed Act to commence on assent.
Clause 3 amends the Solicitor General Act 1969 to limit the restriction on the
practice of law by the Solicitor General outside the duties of office, so that the
Solicitor General is not prevented from practising law on an unremunerated basis.
Section 2 (5) will read (in part) as follows:
(5) A Solicitor General shall be deemed to have vacated his office:
...
(f) if he engages (whether in New South Wales or elsewhere) during
his term of office in any paid employment or in [the practice of
law] any remunerated practice of law outside the duties of his
office.
(Matter to be omitted is shown in italics, and matter to be inserted is shown in bold
type.)
Clause 4 makes a similar amendment to the Crown Advocate Act 1979.