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Exemptions for practising barrister of five years' standing.
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43.—(1) This section applies to a person—
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(a) who proposes to become a solicitor,
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(b) who has been called to the bar and practised continuously as a barrister for five years or longer during the ten years ending on the date of the final examination of the Society for which he proposes to sit,
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(c) who has procured himself to be disbarred with a view to becoming a solicitor, and
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(d) who has obtained from two of the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the King's Inns, Dublin, a certificate, dated not earlier than six months before the date of the said final examination, of his being a fit and proper person to practise as a solicitor.
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(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to a person to whom this section applies:
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(a) he shall not be required to obtain a certificate of his having passed any examination of the Society other than the final examination and (if obligatory on him) the second examination in the Irish language,
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(b) he shall be entitled, without being bound or serving as an apprentice to a solicitor, to apply to present himself for the final examination,
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(c) on passing the final examination (except so much of that examination as relates to indentures of apprenticeship and service thereunder) and (if obligatory on him) the second examination in the Irish language, he shall be entitled to apply to be admitted and enrolled as a solicitor.
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