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Certificate of 18-(1) The examiners shall certify the result of every such result of examination. preliminary or final examination to the Court within one week from the completion of the same or within such further time as the Court may allow.
Admission of successful candidate, and right of appeal of unsuccessful candidate, At final examination.
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admission after certi- ficate, etc.
Notice of intention to apply for ❤xamina- tion and admission.
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(2) Every such certificate shall be in writing signed by the examiners or any two or more of them, of whom the Attorney General shall be one, and shall state to the effect that the examin- ers or the majority of them find that the candidate is or is not fit to become bound under articles as aforesaid or to act as a solicitor, as the case may be, or that the examiners have not been able to come to any finding as to his fitness in that behalf.
14. If the examiners or the majority of them present at any such final examination find that the candidate is fit, be shall be admitted to practise accordingly; but if they or the said majority find that he is not fit or come to no finding, the candidate may, on his peti- tion to the Court, be heard in support of his qualification and claim to such admission; and if the Court grants the prayer of his petition, he shall be admitted accordingly, notwithstanding any such finding or want of finding as aforesaid.
15. Except in any case where the Court, on special application, gives leave to the contrary, no admission shall be granted, whether on such certificate or on such petition as aforesaid, after the expira- tion of one month from the date of the return of the certificate or the date of the order made on the petition, as the case may be.
16. Every candidate for admission as a solicitor shall give one month's notice in writing to the Registrar of his intention to apply for examination and admission, and shall cause a like notice to be inserted three times in the Gazette and in a public newspaper of the Colony: Provided always that the Chief Justics may, on any special grounds, make an order dispensing with all or any of the formalities prescribed by this section.
17. Every such candidate who has given notice of such his inten- tion and who has not attended to be examined, or has not passed the examination, or has not been admitted, may, but not within 6 months after such notice given, renew the notice for examination and admission, and so from time to time as often as he may think
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As amended by No. 82 of 1911, No. 68 of 1911 and the Final Ravi-
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proper: Provided always that if any such person has been prevent- ed from attending to be examined as aforesaid by reason of sickness or other unavoidable cause, it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to permit such notice to be renewed within the said period of 6 months.
of articles of
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practising in
18. Every such candidate who has served part of the period Registration of 5 years 28 an articled clerk to a solicitor practising in Great Britain or Ireland, and the other part to a solicitor solicitor practising in this Colony, shall, in addition to the formalities Great Britain prescribed by sections 5 and 6 in respect of the articles therein or Ireland. mentioned, and before he can be admitted and enrolled, produce to the Registrar the articles under which he has become bound to such solicitor practising in Great Britain or Ireland and every assign- ment thereof, and shall make and swear, or duly cause to be made and sworn, such affidavits in relation thereto as are prescribed by section 5 in respect of the articles therein mentioned; and the provisions of section 6 shall likewise apply to articles whereby such candidate has been bound to serve any solicitor practising in Great Britain or Ireland and to any assignment thereof: 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.
6&7 Vict.
c. 127 s. 10.
19. (1) Every such candidate shall, before he can be admitted Affidavit of Jug service and enrolled, prove by an affidavit of himself or of the solicitor or under solicitors practising in Great Britain or Ireland or in this Colony articles. to whom he was bound, to be duly made and filed in the Court, that 8. 78 s. 14; he has actually and really served and been employed by such practis- 28 & 24 Vict. ing solicitor or solicitors during the period of 5 years required by this Ordinance, and that he has not during such period held any office or been engaged in any employment whatsoever other than the employment of clerk to such solicitor or solicitors and his or their partner or partners, if any, in the business, practice, or em. ployment of a solicitor.
(2) The affidavit shall be in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice.
*As amended by No. 62 of 1911 and No. 68 of 1911 and the Final
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