LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
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served and been employed by such practising solicitor or solicitors during the period of five years required by this Ordinance, and that he has not during such period held any office or been engaged in any employment whatsoever other than the employment of clerk to such solicitor or solicitors and his or their partner or partners, if any, in the business, practice, or employment of a solicitor.
(2) The affidavit shall be in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice:
Admission of barristers, solicitors, and notaries public.
unless
20 No person shall practise in this Colony as a barrister or solicitor unless he has been approved, admitted, and enrolled by the court, or as a notary public unless he has enrolled or been registered, under the provisions of this Ordinance.
registered.
Irish or Scotch
21. The court shall have power to approve, admit, and enrol such persons as have been admitted barristers or solicitors, and such persons as have been admitted as attorneys, advocates or solicitors, or writers in one of the courts at London, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, to practise as solicitors in the court.
In this Ordinance, "writers" shall be deemed to include "law agents" as defined in section 1 of the Act 36 and 37 Victoria, chapter 63.
22. Every person who desires to be admitted under section 21 to practise in the court in any of the capacities therein mentioned.
Certificate of call or admission to be deposited with Registrar and affidavit of identity to be filed, etc.
(a) if a barrister or advocate, shall deposit with the Registrar his certificate of call to the bar, and shall file in the court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice;
(b) if an attorney, solicitor, writer or proctor, shall give four months previous notice in writing to the Registrar and to the secretary of the Hongkong Law Society of such his desire, and shall deposit with the Registrar his certificate of admission, together with a certificate from the proper officer of the court issuing such certificate of admission that such
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923, and Law Am. Ord., 1923. As amended by No. 19 of 1923 and Law Rev. Ord., 1923.