Administration of Justice Act 1969

7 Right of audience

(1) In section 89 of the principal Act, in paragraph (c), for the words " but not a solicitor retained as an advocate by a; solicitor so acting " there shall be substituted the words " (in this paragraph referred to as a ' solicitor on the record '), any solicitor employed by a solicitor on the record, any solicitor engaged as an agent by a solicitor on the record and any solicitor employed by a solicitor so engaged " , and paragraph (i) of the proviso shall be omitted.

(2) At the end of the said section 89 there shall be added the following subsections:—

“(2) Where an action is brought in a county court by a local authority for either or both of the following, that is to say—

(a) the recovery of possession of a house belonging to the authority;

(b) the recovery of any rent, mesne profits, damages or other sum claimed by the authority in respect of the occupation by any person of such a house,

then, in so far as the proceedings in the action are heard by the registrar, any officer of the authority authorised by the authority in that behalf, not being a person entitled to address the court by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, may address the registrar as if he were a person so entitled.

(3) In this section ' local authority' means the council of a county, county borough, London borough or county district, the Greater London Council or the Common Council of the City of London, ' house ' includes a part of a house, a flat or any other dwelling and also includes any yard, garden, outhouse or appurtenance occupied with a house or part of a house or with a flat or other dwelling, and any reference to the occupation of a house by a person includes a reference to anything done by that person, or caused or permitted by him to be done, in relation to the house as occupier of the house, whether under a tenancy or licence or otherwise.”