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]
WHEREAS it has been found greatly conducive to the Public Interest that Persons specially appointed by the Commissioners of the Treasury, or by the several Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenue, to be Solicitors or Attornies on behalf of His Majesty, should act and practise as such Solicitors or Attornies without being admitted and enrolled as Solicitors or Attornies, and without being subject, by reason of such acting or practising, to any of the Regulations in force in any Part of the United Kingdom relating to Solicitors or Attornies:
Be it therefore enacted and declared by the King'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,
That 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 Directions 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 practise 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 ; any thing 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.
And be it further enacted, That every Person who shall or may have acted as such Solicitor or Attorney under or in pursuance of or in obedience to any such Appointment, Orders, and Directions as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby respectively indemnified for and on account of the same, and of any Act or Thing done in pursuance of or in obedience to or in conformity with such Appointment, Orders, and Directions; and if any Action, Suit, Prosecution, or Proceeding hath been or shall be commenced against any Person, for or in respect of any Act, Matter, or Thing done under such Appointment, Orders, or Directions as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Defendant or Defender in any such Action, Suit, Prosecution, or Proceeding, in or before whatever Court the same may be commenced or had, to apply to such Court by Motion in a summary Way to stay all Proceedings whatever against such Defendant or Defender, and such Court is hereby required to make Order for that Purpose accordingly.