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No. 1 of 1871.
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
Enrolment of person who has served
Colony and in
the secretary of the Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong 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 last-mentioned certificate is still valid and in force, and a further certificate of fitness and character signed by two practising attorneys, solicitors or proctors of at least five years' standing in one of the courts in Great Britain or Ireland, and shall file in the court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice:
Provided always that the Chief Justice may, on special grounds and on such conditions as he may think proper, exempt any such person from complying with the formalities prescribed by this section, either absolutely or for any specified period. But no such exemption shall be granted in the case of an attorney, solicitor or proctor unless notice of intention to apply therefor has been previously given by the applicant to the secretary of the Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong.
23. The court shall have power to admit and enrol as a solicitor any person, being a British subject, who has actually under articles exclusively and bonâ fide served for the period of five years as in the Colony
a clerk under articles to any solicitor actually practising in the or in the
Colony, or part of such period of five years under articles to such solicitor and the other part under articles to any attorney, solicitor or proctor actually practising in Great Britain or Ireland, and who has been examined and sworn in the manner herein directed, and has fulfilled all the conditions of this Ordinance in relation to such admission.
Great Britain or Ireland.
Incorporated
of Hong
right of audience.
23A. The Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong shall, Law Society subject to the approval of the court first obtained, have a right Kong to have of audience by solicitor or counsel on the hearing of any application for admission as attorney, solicitor or proctor under section 21 or section 23, or for exemption in the case of any attorney, solicitor or proctor from complying with the formalities prescribed by section 22 or for striking the name of any solicitor or proctor off the rolls under section 52.
Oaths to be taken on enrolment of
24. Every person who applies to be admitted and enrolled under section 21 or section 23 as a solicitor shall, before
* As amended by No. 13 of 1931 [15.5.31] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.