This Act may be cited as the Law Practitioners Amendment Act, 1920, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Law Practitioners Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

For the purposes of section five of the principal Act the period of continuous practice as a solicitor or managing clerk required in the case of a solicitor making application under that section for admission as a barrister shall be deemed, in the case of a solicitor who, after having qualified for admission as a solicitor and whether admitted as a solicitor or not, has served abroad with any portion of His Majesty’s Forces in the late war, to include the period elapsing between his acceptance for such service and the expiration of twelve months after the date of his discharge.

Section twenty-one of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, is hereby repealed.