ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1856 . 357
Admission of Practitioners in Supreme Court.
ing themselves so far as may be practicable to the regulations by which the examinations
of candidates for admission to practise as attornies and solicitors of the Courts of
Westminster are governed and directed.
3. Such questions as are propounded in print or in writing to the said candidates Written answers.
by the examiners in that behalf, shall be answered in writing.
4. The examiners shall certify the result of every such examination to the Certificate of the
examiners.
Supreme Court within one week from the completion of the said examination. And
every such certificate shall be in writing signed by the examiners , or any two of them
of whom the said Attorney General, barrister, or Registrar shall be one , and shall state
to the effect that the examiners, or the majority of them, find that the candidate is or
(as the case may be) is not fit to act as an attorney, solicitor, and proctor of the
Supreme Court, or (as the case may be) that the examiners have not been able to come
to any finding as to his fitness in that behalf.
5. If the examiners, or the majorioy of them present at the examination, find The candidate, if
unsuccessful,
that the candidate is fit, he shall be admitted to practise accordingly : but if they, or may appeal to
the Court.
the said majority, find that he is not fit, or come to no finding, he may, on his petition
to the Supreme Court, be heard in support of his qualification and claim to such
admission . And if the said Court shall grant the prayer of such his petition, he shall
be admitted accordingly, notwithstanding any such finding or want of finding as
aforesaid.
6. Except in cases where the Court on special application shall give leave to the Certificate or
order to be in
contrary, no admission shall be granted, whether upon such certificate or such petition force for one
month.
as aforesaid, after the expiration of one month from the date of the return of the
certificate or (as the case may be) the date of the order made upon the petition .
7. No person bona fide domiciled within this Colony, and who shall comply with Alienage or
Chinese status no
the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be disqualified from obtaining such admission disqualification.
as aforesaid merely by reason of alienage, or that he is by birth a Chinaman .
8. The provisions aforesaid shall not in any way affect the right of such persons Saving of exist
ing rights.
as shall have been admitted as attornies, solicitors, or writers in one of the Courts at
Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as proctors in an Ecclesiastical Court in Eng
land, to be admitted to practise in the said Supreme Court as attornies, solicitors, and
proctors thereof.
9. Every person soever who from henceforward shall be admitted to practise as Fifty dollars
payable on
admission.
attorney, solicitor, or proctor, whether under this Ordinance or not, shall, on such
admission, pay to the Registrar, or Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court for the
use of the Crown the fee of fifty dollars, and shall take and subscribe all such oaths or Oath .
affirmations as are appointed by the Acts of Parliament for the time being in force in
England for regulating the admission of persons to practise in the profession of attorney
or solicitor ;-every Jew or heathen who shall take the oaths omitting the words " on
the true faith of a Christian," and taking the said oaths according to his own
conscience.