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Order in Council, 1901.
THE COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT.
Court of the Colony of Hongkong and to the Colony of Hongkong and that solicitors of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hongkong may be admitted by virtue of the said Act to be solicitors in England and in Ireland, and Law Agents in Scotland subject to the conditions hereinafter specified :-
(1) A solicitor of the said Supreme Court of the Colony of Hongkong (hereinafter called the applicant) who, having been in practice before such Court for not less than 3 years, is desirous of being admitted to be a solicitor of the Supreme Court in England or Ireland or a Law Agent in Scotland shall be a male British subject.
(2) The applicant shall, 4 calendar months at least before the first day of the month in which he proposes to be admitted, leave with the Registrar of Solicitors, or in the case of Scotland with the Registrar of Law Agents, his original certificate of admission in the said Supreme Court of the said Colony together with-
(a) a certificate from the authority of the said Colony in whose custody the roll of the solicitors of the said Court is kept stating that his name is still upon the roll and has never been removed therefrom and that no order has ever been made directing him to be suspended from practising his profession;
(b) one or more certificates of fitness and character signed by two resident practising solicitors of at least 5 years standing in the said Court and by at least one of the Judges or officers next in rank of such Court;
(c) a statutory declaration in terms of or to the effect of that set out in the schedule A hereunto annexed.
(3) The leaving of the before-mentioned documents shall be equivalent to notice of intention to apply for admission within the meaning of the Acts regulating the admission of solicitors in England and Ireland respectively.
(4) A certificate under the hand of the Registrar of Solicitors that the applicant has complied with the provisions of the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900, and of this Order, shall be equivalent to the certificate of his having passed the final examination required in England and Ireland respectively.
(5) The application for admission to be a solicitor in England shall be to the Master of the Rolls and for the like admission in Ireland to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
(6) The applicant in England or Ireland shall not be required to pass any examination either before or after making such application.
(7) The admission of the applicant as solicitor in England or Ireland shall be stamped with the stamps required to be impressed on the admission.