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Ord. No. 21/79
BANKRUPTCY (AMENDMENT)
(e) section 30(2) and (8) (discharge of bankrupt); (f) section 42 (relation back of trustee's title);
(g) section 78(1)(e) (report to creditors of debtor's proposal); (h) section 83 (appeal to court against act or decision of trustee).”.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 25th day of April 1979.
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT)
Ord. No. 22/79
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HONG KONG
No. 22 of 1979
I assent.
L.S.
This printed impression has with the bill, and is found by printed copy of the said bill.
STEPHEN S. P. Tam, Clerk to the Legislative Council.
been carefully compared by me me to be a true and correctly
STEPHEN S. P. TAM,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
MURRAY MacLehose,
Governor.
26th April, 1979.
An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners Ordinance.
[27th April, 1979]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amend- Short title. ment) Ordinance 1979.
2. Section 6(6) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of "for such period not exceeding 2 years after his admission as the Com- section 6. mittee may direct" and substituting the following-
"until he satisfies the Committee that since being admitted as a solicitor he has been bona fide employed in the practice of a solicitor in Hong Kong for at least 2 years".
3.
(Cap. 159.)
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 26 Addition of the following---
"Restriction
upon enrolment
as a student.
26AA. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions, no person shall be enrolled as student by the Society unless that person→→
(a) is the holder of a recognized law degree;
(b) has obtained the Post Graduate Certificate in Laws
awarded by the University of Hong Kong;
(c) has passed Part I of the qualifying examination set
by the English Law Society;
(d) has passed the Common Professional Examination
recognized by the English Law Society; or
(e) has obtained exemption from the English Law Society from taking the examination referred to in paragraph (c) or (d).
(2) In this section "recognized law degree" means a law degree from such university as may from time to time be recognized by the Society.
(3) Where, after the date on which the Legal Practi- tioners (Amendment) Ordinance 1979 was published as a Bill in the Gazette and before the date on which that Ordinance came into operation, the Society enrolled as a student any person who, had he applied to be enrolled after the date on which that Ordinance came into operation, would not have been entitled to be enrolled by virtue of subsection (1), the Society may remove that person's name from the roll of students.
section 26A.