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428 as to examinations, indenture, and service, required by the said Acts, and remit the petitioner for examination in forms of process to the examiners appointed in virtue of said Acts, and on his producing a certificate by said examiners that he has passed the said examination and without making the affidavit of apprenticeship prescribed by the said Act, the court may admit such notary public as a law agent, and authorise his name to be enrolled as a law agent under the said Act, and any Act or Acts explaining or amending the same. The court may in its discretion dispense with the examination in the case of any notary public who has regularly taken out the licence certificate required by law, and has been in practice as a notary public for not less than seven years immediately preceding the date of the passing of this Act.

4. From and after the passing of this Act notaries public, although they are not enrolled law agents, may be admitted as members of the Incorporated Society of Law Agents in Scotland,

5. Upon the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of clerk to the admission of notaries public in Scotland all liability of the Treasury in respect of the salary and expenses of the said office shall cease, but the clerk shall be remunerated by fees which the court of session shall fix by Act of Sederunt.

6. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Law Agents (Scotland) Act, 1873, it shall be competent for the court of session, and they are hereby authorised and reqtiired by Act of Sederunt, to fix from time to time such fees as they may think reasonable to be payable to the registrar of law agents in Scotland for and in respect of his statutory duties as such registrar.

7. This Act may be cited as the Law Agents (Scotland) Act Amendment Act, 1896.

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act, 1896, and shall come into operation from and immediately after the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

Superannuation. 2. Subject to the provisions of this Act, every officer and servant in service or employment of the guardians of a union or parish