THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH OCTOBER, 1870.
73 s. 8.]
and shall file in the said Court an Affidavit of Identity in such Registrar and Form as may be approved by the Chief Justice: Provided always Affidavit of that the Chief Justice may, on special Grounds and upon such Identity to Conditions as he may think proper, exempt any such Person from be filed. complying with the Formalities prescribed by this Section.
Notaries,
X. The Registrar shall keep a special Book for the Registra- Register of tion of Public Notaries, and every Public Notary, who shall produce Public his Notarial Faculty, and shall file in the Supreme Court an Affidavit of Identity, in such Form as may be approved by the Chief Justice, shall on Payment of the Fee specified in Sec- tion XXVI, be entitled to be registered therein.
Execution of
[6 & 7 Vic., c. XI. The Articles whereby any Person shall become bound to Formalities to
serve as a Clerk to any Attorney, and every Assignment thereof, be observed shall be produced to the Registrar within One Month after the upon the same shall have been executed and the Person so bound as aforesaid Articles or of shall within the said Period make and duly swear or cause to be any Assign- made and duly sworn an Affidavit of such Attorney having been went thereof. duly admitted, and also of the actual Execution of the Articles or Assignment by the Parties thereto; and in every such Affidavit shall be specified the Names of such Attorney and of the Person so bound and the Day on which such Articles or Assignment were actually executed and such Person shall also, within the said Period, file the said Affidavit in the Supreme Court.
[0 & 7 Vic., c. 73. 8. 8.]
c. 127 s. 7.]
to the Enrol-
XII. Within the said Period of One Month and upon the Filing Duties of the of the Affidavit required by the last preceding Section and the Registrar as [23 & 24 Vics Payment of the Fees specified in Section XXVI, the Registrar ment, &c., of
shall enrol and register the Articles or Assignment and shall Articles, make and sign a Memorandum thereon and on the Affidavit, of the Day on which the same was filed and the Registrar shall likewise enter the Names of the Parties to and the Dates of such Articles or Assignment and the Term of Service in a Book to be kept for that Purpose and shall mark such Articles or Assignment as having been so entered with the Date thereof and the said Book shall be open to public Inspection during Office Hours without Fee or Reward.
[0 & 7 Vic., c. 73 s. 9.] [23 & 24 Vic., c. 127 s. 7.1
formed after
XIII. The Formalities prescribed by the Two last preceding The Formel- Sections may be observed and performed after the Expiration of tits prescrived the Period of One Month therein specified by Leave of the Chief may be per- Justice, but the Service of the Clerk so bound as aforesaid shall be the Expiration reckoned to commence and be computed from the Date when such of the Period 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.
in any other
[23 & 24 Vic.; XIV. 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 Employment. and his Partner or Partners (if any) in the Business, Practice, or Employment of an Attorney and Proctor.
[No. 13 of
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- neration. nance, and they shall be entitled to receive by Way of Remuneration for their Services, such Sum or Suns 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. Gen. II, T. 153 No. [23 & 24 Vic.. c. 127 s. 11.]
ry Examina-
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 tion. 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
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