CAP. 159]
37 of 1948.
To
9 of 1950.
*Short title.
Interpretation.
22 and 23 Geo.
Legal Practitioners.
CHAPTER 159.
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
repeal and replace the laws relating to the legal profession.
[16th July, 1948.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance-
"articles" include any contract in writing whereby any person is bound to serve apprenticeship as clerk to a solicitor and shall include any such contract duly entered into prior to the date of this Ordinance;
"client" (except in relation to non-contentious business) includes any person who as principal or on behalf of another person retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person who is or may be liable to pay a solicitor's costs;
"Committee" or "The Committee of the Law Society" means the committee of the Society elected in accordance with the provisions of its articles of association;
"contentious business" includes any business done by a solicitor in any court, whether as a solicitor or as an advocate;
"costs" includes fees, charges, disbursements, expenses and remuneration;
"Law Society" or "Society" means the Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong;
"non-contentious business" includes any business connected with sales, purchases, leases, mortgages, settlements and other matters of conveyancing;
"qualified barrister" shall not include a person who has not been approved, admitted and enrolled as such under section 26 or a barrister whose name has been removed from or struck off the roll and has not been restored or a barrister suspended at any material time from practice; "qualified notary" shall not include a person who has not been registered as a notary public under section 31 or a notary public whose name has been removed from or struck off the register kept under section 31 and has not been restored or a notary public suspended at any material time from practice;
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