Customs Consolidation Act, 1876

Solicitors clerks and officers of Customs may conduct cases.

273. Any person appointed to be solicitor or assistant solicitor of Her Majesty's Customs, or any clerk duly appointed to act on his behalf or under his or their directions, shall and may in any case relating to the Customs, or under the direction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury or Customs, act as counsel solicitor advocate or writer to the signet in the prosecution conduct or defence of any such case in any court jurisdiction or place in which such case may be instituted, and any such solicitor assistant solicitor or clerk and any officer of Customs, under the order and directions of the Commissioners of Customs, may prosecute defend or conduct any proceeding before any justice in any matter relating to the Customs to be heard or determined by him.