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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH JUNE, 1896.
HER MAJESTY, having taken the said Representation and the Schedule of Rules annexed into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the said Rules (copy of which is hereunto annexed) be punctually observed, obeyed, and carried into excention, in lieu of the Rules established by the Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 31st March 1870.
C. L. PEEL.
SCHEDULE annexed to the foregoing Order.
RULES.
I. Every Proctor, Solicitor, or Agent admitted to practise before Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, or any of the Committees thereof, shall subscribe a Declaration to be enrolled in the Privy Council Office, engaging to observe and obey the Rules, Regulations, Orders, and Practice of the Privy Council; and also to pay and discharge, from time to time, when the same shall be demanded, all fees or charges due and payable upon any inatter pending before Her Majesty in Council; and no person shall be admitted to practise, or allowed to continue to practise, before the Privy Council, without having subscribed such Declaration in the following terms:-
FORM OF DECLARATION.
WE, the Undersigned, do hereby declare, that we desire and intend to practise as Solicitors. or Agents in Appeals and other matters pending before Her Majesty in Council; and we severally and respectively do hereby engage to observe, submit to, perform, and abide by all and every the Orders, Rules, Regulations, and Practice of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and the Committees thereof now in force, or hereafter from time to time to be made; and also to pay and discharge, from time to time, when the same shall be demanded, all fees, charges, and sums of money due and payable in respect of any Appeal, Petition, or other matter in and upon which we shall severally and respectively appear as such Solicitors or Agents.
II. Every Proctor or Solicitor practising in London shall be allowed to subscribe the foregoing Declaration, and to practise in the Privy Council, upon the production of his Certificate for the current year; and no fee shall be payable by him on the enrolment of his signature to the foregoing Declaration.
III. Persons not being certificated London Solicitors, but having been duly admitted to practise as Solicitors by the High Courts of Judicature in England and Ireland, or by the Court of Session in Scotland, or by the High Courts in any of Her Majesty's Dominions respectively, may apply, by petition, to the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council, for leave to be admitted to practise before such Committee; and such persons may, if the Lords of the Committee please, be admitted to practise by an Order of their Lordships, for such periods and under such conditions as their Lordships are pleased
to direct.
IV. Any Proctor, Solicitor, Agent, or other person practising before the Privy Council, who shall wilfully act in violation of the Rules and Practice of the Privy Council, or of any rules prescribed by the authority of Her Majesty, or of the Lords of the Council, or who shall misconduct himself in prosecuting proceedings before the Privy Council, or any Committee thereof, or who shall refuse or omit to pay the Council Office fees or charges payable from him when demanded, shall be liable to an absolute or temporary prohibition to practise before the Privy Council, by the authority of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, upon cause shown at their Lordships' Bar.
I. All Cases, Records, and other Proceedings in Appeals, or other matters pending before Committees of the Privy Council, are henceforth to be printed in the form known as DEMY QUARTO.
II. The size of the paper used is to be such that the sheet, when folded, will be eleven inches ir height and eight inches and a half in width.
III. The type to be used in the text is to be Pica type, but Long Primer is to be used in printing accounts, tabular matter, and notes.
IV. The number of lines in each page of Pica type is to be forty-seven, cach line being five inches and three quarters or 146 millimetres in length.