CAP. 87]
3 of 1950.
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Short title.
Inter-pretation.
(Cap. 159.)
Schedule.
(Cap. 1.)
Rights and privileges of a legal officer.
Legal Officers.
CHAPTER 87.
LEGAL OFFICERS.
To consolidate and amend the law relating to the right of officers of the legal departments of Government to practise as barristers and solicitors for certain purposes and to recover fees and costs in respect of work done and generally to regulate the status rights privileges and duties of such officers.
[10th March, 1950.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Officers Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance—
"duly admitted" means duly approved, admitted and enrolled as a barrister or solicitor under the Legal Practitioners Ordinance;
"legal officer" means an officer appointed to and serving in the Colony as a legal officer, or an officer lawfully performing the functions of any of the officers designated in the Schedule hereto;
"public body" includes any executive, legislative, municipal, or urban council, any Government department or undertaking, any local or public authority or undertaking, any board, commission, committee or other body whether paid or unpaid appointed by the Governor or Government of Hong Kong or which has power to act in a public capacity under or for the purposes of any enactment;
"public servant" means in addition to the meaning assigned to it by the Interpretation Ordinance, any employee or member of a public body as defined in this Ordinance, whether temporary or permanent and whether paid or unpaid;
'rights" includes powers privileges and discretions;
"tribunal" includes any council, committee, arbitrator, body or person before which a barrister or solicitor may lawfully appear.
3. (1) Any legal officer shall in respect of any of the matters mentioned in subsection (1) of section 4 have all the rights of barristers and solicitors duly admitted under the provisions of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance.
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