Revenue Solicitors' Act, 1828

REVENUE SOLICITORS' ACT 1828

CHAPTER XXV.

An Act to authorize the Appointment of Persons to act as Solicitors on behalf of His Majesty in any Court or Jurisdiction in Revenue Matters. [19th June 1828.]

[Preamble.]

Persons appointed to be solicitors or attornies on behalf of his Majesty, under the orders of the Treasury or other revenue departments, &c. may act as such in all courts or jurisdictions in the United Kingdom.

[1.] Whenever any person has been, or is, or shall be appointed to be solicitor or attorney on behalf of his Majesty, under the orders and directors of the commissioners of the Treasury, customs, excise, or stamps, or under the orders and directions of any commissioners or other persons or person having the management of any other branch of his Majesty’s revenue, for the time being, it is and shall and may be lawful for such person to act and practice as such solicitor or attorney under such orders and directions in all and every court and courts, jurisdiction and jurisdictions, place and places, in any and every part of the United Kingdom; anything in any Act of Parliament, or in any order or rule of any court of justice, or any law, usage, or custom, in force in any part of the United Kingdom, relating to solicitors or attornies, or to the admission or practice of such solicitors or attornies, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

[S. 2 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]