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[Subsidiary]
CAP. 159]
Articled Clerks Rules
[1983 Ed.
L.N. 44/81.
Irregular service.
Other employment of articled clerk.
L.N. 130/68.
(2) [Deleted L.N. 44/81]
(3) An articled clerk may, with the permission of the solicitor to whom he is articled, spend a period not exceeding 1 year employed in the proper practice business and employment of another solicitor provided that such solicitor is eligible to take an articled clerk under section 20 of the Ordinance and there is not a prohibition in force under section 21 of the Ordinance in respect of such solicitor, and such period shall be reckoned as if it were a period with and in the office of the solicitor to whom the clerk is articled and as good service under articles.
(4) The following shall be reckoned as if they were periods of employment with the solicitor to whom the clerk is articled and as good service under articles, that is to say-
(e) any day during which such clerk sat or sits any part of the qualifying examination;
(f) such period as the Society in its discretion may permit to be so reckoned, including any period of articled clerkship in England or Wales;
(g).
10. (1) Unless the Society otherwise directs, the following may not be reckoned by an articled clerk as good service under articles-
(a) service by an articled clerk to a solicitor who has taken or retained him in contravention of the provision of section 20 of the Ordinance:
(b) service by an articled clerk to a solicitor who has taken him in contravention of a prohibition in force under section 21 of the Ordinance.
(2) [Deleted, L.N. 225/83]
11. (1) Subject to the provisions of these rules no articled clerk shall during the term hold any office or engage in any employment other than the employment of the solicitor with whom he has entered into articles or of a partner of that solicitor in the proper business, practice and employment of a solicitor, and no period during which he has held any such other office or engaged in any such other employment may, unless the Society otherwise directs, be reckoned as good service under articles.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any articled clerk who, before he entered upon or engages in any office or employment, has obtained the written consent of the solicitor with whom he has entered into articles and of the Society.
(3) Any direction given by the Society under paragraph (1) or any consent given by the Society under paragraph (2) may be given subject to such terms and conditions as the Society may think fit and shall be subject to payment to the Society of the prescribed fee.