Legal Practitioners.
CHAPTER 159.
THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
PART I.
ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION OF LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
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222 Service and examination of articled clerks.
3. Regulations for preliminary examination 223
4. Formalities on execution of articles and of any assignment 224
5. Enrolment of articles, etc. 224
6. Leave to extend period 224
7. Articled clerks limited to two 225
8. Restriction on employment of articled clerks 225
9. Notice of articles to Society and evidence of character, etc. 10. Service to be continuous and exclusive 225 226
11. Articled clerks not to take other employment 226
12. Articled clerks not disqualified by disqualification of principal 13. Discharge or assignment of articles in case of bankruptcy 14. Power of Society to discharge articles in certain cases. 226 226 226
15. Fresh articles in certain cases 16. Term of articles 227 227
17. One year's absence in England to count in articles 227
18. Notice to sit for final examination. Regulations. 227
19. Fees for examination 228
20. Exemption of disbarred barrister from service under articles. 21. Notice of intention to apply for admission 228 228
22. Further formalities on applying for admission 23. Evidence of service 228 229
ADMISSION AND ENROLMENT OF BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS AND REGISTRATION OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.
24. Prohibition against practice unless admitted, enrolled or registered 229
25. Power of the court to admit and enrol solicitors qualified under this Ordinance 229
26. Power of the court to admit and enrol barristers and solicitors from England or Northern Ireland 230
27. Formalities for admission under section 26 230
28. Society's general right of audience 231
29. Oath of allegiance on admission 231
30. The rolls 231
31. Registration of notaries public 232
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