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Great Britain part under articles to any solicitor actually practising in Great Britain or Ireland, and who has been examined in the manner hereinbefore directed and sworn in the manner hereinafter directed, and otherwise has fulfilled all the conditions of this Ordinance in relation to such admission.
24. Every person who applies to be admitted and enrolled under section 21 or under the last preceding section as a solicitor and proctor of enrolment of the Court shall, before admission and enrolment, subscribe the oath or declaration and affirmation of allegiance in the form prescribed by the No. 1 of 1869. Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869, and also the oath or declaration and affirmation following:----
Oaths to be taken on ad- mission and solicitor and proctor.
Registration of public notaries.
General
I, A. B., do swear [or solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm that I will truly and honestly demean myself in the practice of a solicitor and proctor, according to the best of my knowledge and ability [and, in the case of an oath, So help me God.]
Registration of Public Notaries.
25. The Registrar shall keep a special book for the registration of public notaries, and every public notary who produces his notarial faculty, and files in the Court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice, shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, be entitled to be registered therein.
Practice of Barristers, Solicitors, Proctors, and Public Notaries.
26. It shall be lawful for any person admitted and enrolled by the Court to practise as a barrister or as a solicitor to practise as such respectively in all the Courts of the Colony.
Right to practise of barrister and solicitor.
6 & 7 Vict. c. 37 s. 27.
Penalty for unlawfully practising as barrister, solicitor, proctor, or public notary.
Modification of rules of legal profession.
Modification
27. Every person who,--
(1.) either directly or indirectly, practises or acts in this Colony as a barrister, solicitor, or proctor without having been admitted and enrolled by the Court, either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, or as a public notary without having been duly registered as hereinbefore provided; or,
(2.) without possessing any qualification as a barrister, solicitor, proctor, or public notary, acts as such or prepares any document whatever for fee or reward,
shall be liable for every such offence to forfeit to the Crown a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.
28. The rules of the legal profession and the laws now in force in relation to the practice of barristers and solicitors admitted and enrolled by the Court shall be modified to the extent mentioned in the next two succeeding sections.
29.-(1.) A barrister may, without the intervention of a solicitor, hold a brief.
(2.) ... for a client proceeding...
(3.) ... profession a solicitor...
(4.) ...
30... Summary...
(2.) ... commence other act...
31. ... the rules have hereafter liability...
32. ... tion of ever di action apply to if he the other the same in for that are ext...
33.- or defend for the property solicitor out of, be, what mental action.
(2.) ...
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