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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD JUNE, 1871.
齜
[0 & 7 Vic., c.
73 s. 9.} [23 & 24 Vic.
c. 127 s. 7.]
[23 & 24 Vic.,
per-
XIV. The Formalities prescribed by the Two last preceding The Formali- Sections may be observed and performed after the Expiration of ties prescribed the Period of One Month therein specified by Leave of the Chief may be Justice, but the Service of the Clerk so bound as aforesaid shall be formed after reckoned to commence and be computed from the Date when such of the Period
the Expiration Leave shall have been granted or in the Case of an Assignment specified, by his Service shall be suspended from the Expiration of the said Leave of the Period of One Month hereinbefore specified until the Date when Chief Justice. such Leave shall be granted, unless the Chief Justice shall other- wise order.
XV. No Person bound by Articles of Clerkship to any Attorney Articled Clerks c. 172 s.10.] as aforesaid, shall, during the Term of Service mentioned in not to be
such Articles, hold any Office or engage in any Employment engaged whatsoever other than the Employment of Clerk to such Attorney in any other and his Partner or Partners (if any) in the Business, Practice, Employment. or Employment of an Attorney and Proctor.
[No. 13 of
XVI. The Attorney General together with any Two or more fit Appointment 1856. s. 2.] Persons to be appointed fron Time to Time as Occasion shall of Examiners
require by the Chief Justice in Writing and under the Seal of the and Remu-
[23 & 24 Vic.,
c. 127 s.]
[Reg. Gen. II,
[No.13 of
Supreme Court, shall be Examiners for the Purposes of this Ordi- neration.
nance, and they shall be entitled to receive by Way of Remuneration
for their Services, such Sum or Sums out of the Public Revenue
of the Colony as the Governor in Council may from Time to Time direct.
XVII. The Chief Justice may from Time to Time if he shall Regulations think fit, make Regulations to be approved by the Legislative for Prelimina- Council for the Preliminary Examination of Persons hereafter ry Examina- intending to become bound under Articles of Clerkship as afore- tion. said, in order to ascertain the Fitness of such Persons to become so bound having Regard to their general Learning and Education and to their Character and Conduct, and the Articles whereby any Person shall have been bound to serve any Attorney practising in this Colony without having passed such Preliminary Examina tion to the Satisfaction of the Examiners or without having obtained an Order from the Chief Justice dispensing with such Preliminary Examination, shall be null and void.
XVIII. The Chief Justice may from Time to Time if he Regulations 1853 No. 2.1 shall think fit, make Regulations to be approved by the Legis- for Final [23 & 24 Vic.,
c. 127 s. 11.] lative Council for the Final Examination of Persons who shall Examination. have been bound by Articles of Clerkship for a Period of Five Years as aforesaid, in order to ascertain the Fitness of such 1956 s. 2.] Persons for Admission to practise as Attornics and Proctors in the Supreme Court, having due Regard to the general Learing and Education, their Character and Conduct, their Professional Knowledge, the Length and Assiduity of their Service and their other Credentials.
[No. 13 of 1856
9. 4.]
[No. 13 of 1856
S. 5.]
[No. 13 of1856
s. 6.]
[Reg. Gen. H.
England may
XIX. Until Regulations for such Preliminary and Final Exa- How far minations shall be made as aforesaid and so far as the same may Regulations be incomplete and may omit to provide for any particular Matters in Force in or Things, the Examiners may conform themselves so far as shall be followed. be practicable to the Regulations for the Time being by which the Examinations of Persons intending to become bound under Articles of Clerkship, and of Candidates for Admission to practise as Attornies in England are respectively governed and directed.
XX. The Examiners shall certify the Result of every such Certificate of Preliminary or Final Examination to the Supreme Court within Examiners. One Week from the Completion of the same, or within such fur- ther Time as the Court shall allow; and every such Certificate shall be in Writing signed by the Examiners, or any Two or more of them, of whom the Attorney General shall be one, and shall state to the Effect, that the Examiners or the Majority of them, find that the Candidate is or is not fit to become bound urder Articles as aforesaid, or to act as an Attorney, and Proctor of the Supreme Court, (as the Case may be), or that the Examiners have not been able to come to any Finding, as to his Fitness a that Behalf.
the Court.
XXI. If the Examiners, or the Majority of them present at any The Candidate such Final Examination, find that the Candidate is fit, he shall be if unsuccessful admitted to practise accordingly; but if they, or the said Majority, may appeal to find that he is not fit, or come to no Finding, he may, on his Petition to the Supreme Court, be heard in Support of his Qualification and Claim to such Admission; and if the said Court shall grant the Prayer of his Petition, he shall be admitted accordingly, notwithstanding any such Finding or Want of Finding as aforesaid.
XXII. Except in Casos where the Court on Special Application Certificate or shall give Leave to the contrary, no Admission shall be granted Order to be in whether upon such Certificate or such Petition as aforesaid, after Force for One the Expiration of One Month from the Date of the Return of the
Month only Certificate or (as the Case may be) the Date of the Order made Leave of the
except by upon the Petition.
Court.
XXIII. Every Candidate for Admission as an Attorney and Notice of T. 1853 No. Proctor under Section VI shall give One Month's written Iutention to
Notice to the Registrar, of his Intention to apply for Examination apply for
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