Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) And whereas in many cases persons having privilege of Parliament are named as defendants in suits instituted in courts of equity against them either alone or jointly with other persons for enforcing against them demands and duties cognisable in courts of equity and in some cases such defendants having privileges of Parliament have stood out to the return of process of sequestration issued against them for enforcing appearance and such process of sequestration hath not been found sufficient to enforce such appearance be it therefore enacted.
(2) That in case any defendant having privilege of Parliament shall upon a return of process of sequestration issued against the defendant for not putting in an appearance to any original or other bill of complaint instituted against the defendant in a court of equity for enforcing discovery and relief or discovery alone (as the case may be) neglect to appear that then and in such case such court upon producing the return of such sequestration in court may on the motion or other application of the plaintiff in such cause appoint a lawyer to enter an appearance for such defendant so having privilege of Parliament and such proceedings may be thereupon had in the cause as if the party had actually appeared.
(3) In this section—
lawyer means an Australian lawyer who, under the Legal Profession Act 2007, may engage in legal practice in this State.