Editing Proctor (section)

===Australia===
Proctor is a term that survives in [[Western Australia]] and in [[South Australia]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/sa/consol_act/lpa1981207/s5.html|title=LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 1981 - SECT 5}}</ref> Until it was amended in 1992 and later superseded by the Legal Profession Act in 2008, the Legal Practitioners Act 1893 (WA) provided for legal practitioners in Western Australia to be admitted and entitled to practice as "practitioners". That term was then defined as "a person admitted and entitled to practice as a barrister, solicitor, attorney, and proctor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, or in any one or more of these capacities".  Whilst it was theoretically possible to apply for admission in any of these capacities, as there was no separate qualification for such separate admissions, the standard practice (pre-1992) was for all persons to be admitted as barristers, solicitors, and proctors of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Many survive today. South Australian legislation still provides as of December 2019 that a person admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of South Australia is also both a Proctor and an Attorney of that court.<ref name="auto"/>