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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 25, 1913.
HONGKONG.
No. 19 of 1913.
AN Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners
Ordinance, 1871.
I assent to this Ordinance.
LS
F. H. MAY, Governor.
[25th July, 1913.]
Short title.
Definition of Hongkong Law Society.
Amendment
of section 3
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, us follows:---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Practi- tioners Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and construed as one with the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871, (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Ordinance), and the Ordinances amending the same.
2. The following definition is added to section 2 of the Principal Ordinance :-
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"The Hongkong Law Society means the Society of that name incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1865, on the 8th day of March, 1907.
3. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by renumbering sub-section 2, sub-section 3, and of Ordinance by inserting after sub-section 1 and before the renumbered
No. 1 of 1871.
Amendment
sub-section the following
"(2.) The Chief Justice may make an Order dis- pensing with such preliminary examination in the case of a person who has passed any ex- amination which would in England exempt him from passing the preliminary examination of the Incorporated Law Society of England, or who is a graduate of the Hongkong University.”
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4. Section 11 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of section 11 amended by inserting the following words between the of Ordinance words "fit persons" and the word “ to •
No. 1 of 1871.
Amendment
of section 16
of Ordinance No. 1 of
1871.
Repeal of
section 22 of
Ordinance
No. 1 of 1871 and sub- stitution of new section therefor.
"at least one of whom shall be a solicitor practis-
ing in the Colony ",
5. Section 16 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby.. amended by inserting the following words between the words "Registrar" and "
of ":-
"and to the Secretary of the Hongkong Law So-
ciety".
6. Section 22 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted there- for :-
22. Every person who desires to be admitted under the last preceding section to practice in the Court in any of the capacities therein men- tioned,
(a.) if a barrister or advocate, shall de- posit with the Registrar his certificate of call to the bar, and shall file in the Court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice ;
(.) if an attorney, solicitor, writer or proctor, shall give four months' previous notice in writing to the Registrar and to the Secre- tary of the Hongkong Law Society of such his desire, and shall deposit with the Registrar his certificate of admissiou, together with a certi- ficate from the proper officer of the Court issuing such certificate of admission that such
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