Administration of Justice Act 1925

Section 6.

FIRST SCHEDULE Qualifications for certain Offices Supreme Court

Office.	Persona qualified for appointment.
For the purposes of this Schedule, any persons who, having been called to the bar or admitted as solicitors before the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, have practised as barristers or solicitors for a period of, or periods amounting in the aggregate to, not less than ten years shall, if they served in His Majesty's Forces in the late war, be deemed to be practising barristers and practising solicitors respectively.
1. Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and Clerk of the Crown.	1.— (i) A practising barrister of not less than ten years' standing; or , (ii) A barrister of not less than ten years' standing who has during the ten years immediately preceding his appointment been employed in some legal capacity under the State, or who has during part of that period been employed in such a capacity and during the remainder of that period been in practice as a barrister.
2. Master, King's Bench Division (including the King's Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office).	2.— (i) A practising barrister of not less than ten years' standing; or (ii) An official referee ; or (iii) A master in lunacy.
3. Official Referee	3.— (i) A practising barrister of not less than ten years' standing; or (ii) A master, King's Bench Division; or (iii) A master in lunacy.
4 Master in Lunacy	4.— (i) A practising barrister of not less than ten years' standing ; or (ii) A master, King's Bench Division; or (iii) An official referee.
5. Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court.	5.—A practising barrister or practising solicitor of not less than ten years' standing.
6. Master, Chancery Division.	6.— (i) A practising solicitor of not less than ten years' standing ; or (ii) A master, Taxing Office, provided he has been a practising solicitor of not less than ten years' standing ; or (iii) The official solicitor to the Supreme Court, provided he has been a practising solicitor of not less than ten years' standing.
7. Master, Taxing Office.	7.— (i) A practising solicitor of not less than ten years' standing ; or (ii) An admitted solicitor of not less than ten years' standing who has during the ten years immediately preceding his appointment been employed as deputy or assistant master or as deputy or assistant to the official solicitor or as a clerk in the offices of the Royal Courts of Justice, or who has during part of that period been employed as such deputy or assistant or clerk and during the remainder of that period been in practice as a solicitor, provided that there shall at no time be more than one taxing master who shall have been appointed by virtue of the qualification specified in this paragraph ; or (iii) A master, Chancery Division; or (iv) The official solicitor to the Supreme Court, provided he has been a practicing solicitor of not less than ten years' standing.
8. Legal Visitor in Lunacy.	8. A practising barrister or practising solicitor of not less than ten years' , standing.
9. Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court.	9.— (i) A practising solicitor of not less than ten years' standing; or (ii) An admitted solicitor .of not less than ten years' standing who has during the ten years immediately preceding his appointment been employed as deputy or assistant master or as deputy or assistant to the official solicitor or as a clerk in the offices of the Royal Courts of Justice, or who has during part of that period been employed as such deputy or assistant or clerk and during the remainder of that period been in practice as a solicitor; or (iii) A master, Chancery Division ; or (iv) A master, Taxing Office.