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(0) ** non-contentious business includes any business connected with sales, purchases, leases, mortgages, settlements and other matters of conveyancing;
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00 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;
() "qualifled 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 track 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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(A) the registrar means the Registrar of the court; (0) *Bolicitor means a solicitor of the Supreme Court; (m) ** unqualified person means a person who has not been duly approved, admitted and enrolled as a solicitor, under this or any previous Ordinance or who, being such a solicitor, is at any material time suspended from practice or whose name has been struck off or removed from the roll and has not been restored; and
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any term importing the masculine gender shall include
FART I.
ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION OF LEGAL PRACETTIONERS. Service and examination of articled clerks.
Regulations 3. (1) The Chief Justice may make regulations, subject to for preliminary the approval of the Legislative Council, for the preliminary examination. examination of persons intending to become bound under articles 23 and 24
of clerkship to solicitors in order to ascertain the fitness of such Viet 0.127,
persone to become so bound, having regard to their general learning and education and to their character and conduct and until such regulations shall have been made the existing regulations made under the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871, shall remain in force.
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Ordinance Ne 1871.
Second Schedule.
(2) No such preliminary examination shall be necessary in the case of any person who has passed the matriculation or other corresponding examination of any university specified in the Second Schedule, or who has passed an examination which would in England exempt him from passing the preliminary examination of the Law Society there or which would permit him to enter the University of Hongkong without further examinations.
(3) The Chief Justice may in special circumstances exempt any person from the preliminary examination or any part thereof either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he may think fit.
(4) Articles of clerkship shall be unll and void unless the intended articled clerk has passed one of the examinations referred to in sub-section (2) or bas passed the preliminary examination referred to in sub-section (1) or has obtained from
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the Chief Justice an order exempting him from such preliminary examination.
(5) The examiners shall certify the result of overy such preliminary examination to the court within one week from the completion of the same or within such further time as the court may allow.
Every such certificate shall be in writing signed by the examiners or any two or more of them and shall state to the effect that the examiners or the majority of them find that the candidate is or is not fit to become bound under articles as afore. said.
Formalities
of articles
and of soy
4. (1) Articles whereby any person becomes bound to serve as clerk to any solicitor, and every assignment thereof, shall be sution produced to the registrar within one month after the same have been executed, and the person so bound as aforesaid shall, within assignment. the said period, farnish evidence on affidavit of such solicitor of 6 & 7 having been duly admitted, and also of the actual execution of Vict. c.73. the articles or assignment by the parties thereto.
(2) In every such affidavit there shall be specified the names of such solicitor and of the person so bound and the day which such articles were OF Assignment WILN actually executed, and such person shall also, within the said period, file the said affidavit in the court.
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Farolment of articles etc.
5. (1) Within the said period of one month and on the filing of the affidavit required by section 4 and the payment of the
23 & 24 Vict. prescribed fees, the registrar shall enrol and register the articles cray.). or assignment, and shall make and sign a memorandum thereon and on the affidavit of the day on which the same was filed.
(2) The registrar shall likewise enter the names of the parties to and the date of such articles or assignment and the term of service in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall mark anch articles or assignment as having been so entered, with the date thereof, and the said book shall be opeu to public inspection during office hours without fee or reward,
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6. The formalities prescribed by sections 4 and 5 may be Leave to
extend period. obscrved and performed after the expiration of the period of one
Gandy month therein specified, by leave of the Chief Justice, but the 2+73-6-9. service of the clerk so bound as aforesaid shall be reckoned to commence and be computed from the date when such leave is granted or in the case of an assignment, his service shall be suspended from the expiration of the said period of one month until the date when such leave is granted, unless the Chief Justice otherwise ordera.
7. No solicitor shall have more than two articled clerks at Articled clerks the same time.
limited to
two.
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