THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1907. 1187
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to provide for the appointment of
Public Notaries within the Colony.
WHEREAS there is at present no provision for the local appointment of persons to practice as public notaries within the Colony; and whereas it is expedient to make such provision :
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
1. This Ordinaure may be cited as the Public Notaries Short title. Ordinance, 1907.
2. The Governor may at his discretion by warrant under Governor his hand and seal appoint any person who has been duly empowered approved admitted and enrolled to practice as a solicitor to appoint and proctor in the Supreme Court of this Colony to the public office of public notary within the Colony for so long as his name may remain upon the rolls of the Court.
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3. Such person on production to the Registrar of the Registration Supreme Court of such warrant of appointment and having of public subscribed the Declaration and Affirmation in the form in Sebedule A hereto and on payment of the prescribed fee shall be entitled to be registered in the special book kept by the said Registrar under section 25 of the Legal Practi- tioners Ordinance 1871 and thereafter shall, subject to the provisions of the said Ordinance, and within this Colony only, have the same privileges and perform the same fine- tions and duties as a Notary Public appointed according to the law or custom of England.
4. The fee mentioned in Schedule B to this Ordinance Fee on war- shall be payable in respect of the warrant of appointment rant of
appointment. under section 2 hereof,
5. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time Governor-in- make regulations for the scale of fees to be charged by public notaries within the Colony.
Council empowered to authorise scale of fees by public notames,
SCHEDULE A.
1, A. B.. do solummly slaverely and truly declare and affirm that I will fait fully exercise the office of a public notary. I will faithfully make contracts or justruments for o· between any party or parti's requiring the same and I will not a id or diminish anything without the knowledge and consent of such party or parties that may alter the substance of the fact. I will not make or attest any act contract or instrument in which I shall know that there is violence or fraud and in all things I will act uprightly and justly in the business of a public notary according to the best of my skill and ability.
SCHEDULE B.
Fee.
On warrant of appointment as a public notary,
$150.00