THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH AUGUST, 1870.
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.
neration.
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XV. The Attorney General together with any Two or more fit Appointment 1856. s. 2.] Persons to be appointed from Time to Time as Occasion shall of Examiners
require by the Chief Justice in Writing and under the Seal of the and Remu- Supreme Court, shall be Examiners for the Purposes of this Ordi- 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; and the said Examiners or any Two or more of them, of whom the Attorney General shall be one, shall at such Periods, and in such Manner as is hereinafter provided, examine into the Fitness of Persons bound under Articles of Clerkship and who shall be Candidates for Admission under Section VII, having due Regard to their general Learning and Education, their Character and Conduct, their Professional Knowledge, the Length and Assiduity of their Service and their other Credentials.
[Reg. Geu, II. T. 1853 No. 2] (23 & 24 Vic
c. 127 s. 11.j [No. 13 of
1856 s. 2.]
[No. 13 of 1856
s. 4.]
[No. 13 of 1856
s. 5.]
[No. 13 of 1856
s. 6.]
[Reg. Gen. I.
tion.
XVI. The Chief Justice may from Time to Time if he shall see Regulations fit make Regulations to be approved by the Governor in Council for Prelimina for the Preliminary Examination of Persons hereafter intending y Examina- to become bound under Articles of Clerkship as aforesaid, in order to ascertain the Fitness of such Persons to become bound as aforesaid, 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.
XVII. The Chief Justice may from Time to Time make Regulations Regulations to be approved by the Governor in Council for the for Final Final Examination at the Expiration of the said Period of Five Examination. Years into the Fitness of Persons bound by Articles of Clerkship as aforesaid, for Admission to Practice as Attornies, and Proctors in the Supreme Court.
XVIII. Until such Regulations as aforesaid for the Final Exa- How far ninations of Candidates shall be made and so far as the same Regulations
in Force in may be incomplete and may omit to provide for any particular
England may Matters or Things, the Examiners may conform themselves so far
be followed. as may be practicable to the Regulations by which the Exami- nations of Candidates for Admission to Practice as Attornies in England are governed and directed.
XIX. 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 Exaainers or the Majority of them, find that the Candidate is or is not fit to become bound under 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 in that Behalf.
XX. 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 unsucessful admitted to practise accordingly; but if they, or the said Majority, the Court. find that he is not fit, or come to no Pinding, 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 such his Petition, he shall be admitted accordingly, notwithstanding any such Finding or Want of Finding as aforesaid.
may appeal to
Force for One
XXI. Except in Cases 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 Mouth only the Expiration of One Month from the Date of the Beturn of the except by Certificate or (as the Case may be) the Date of the Order made Leave of the upon the Petition.
Court.
XXII. Every Candidate for Admission as an Attorney, and Notice of T. 1853 No. Proctor under Section VII, shall give One Month's written Intention to 5.]
Notice to the Registrar, of his Intention to apply for Examination apply for and Admission, and shall likewise cause a like Notice to be inserted Three Times in the Gazette and in a Public Newspaper of the Colony.
[Reg. Gen. II.
6.1
Examination.
XXIII. Every Candidate for Admission as an Attorney, and Renewal of T. 1853 No. Proctor under Section VII, who shall have given such Notice Notice.
of his Intention to apply for Examination and Admission as aforesaid, and who shall not have attended to be examined, or not have passed the Examination, or not have been admitted, may, within Six Months after such Notice given, renew the Notice for Examination and Admission, and so from Time to Time as often
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