Solicitor General may act for Attorney General.
Evidence of
signature
of
Attorney General
Sub-
8. (1) Wherever in any enactment to which this section applies the expression "Attorney General" occurs the Solicitor General shall also be intended; Provided that save where the Attorney General is absent or unable to act the Solicitor General shall exercise and discharge such only of the rights and duties required to be exercised and discharged by the Attorney General as the Attorney General may, subject to the instructions of the Governor, assign to him. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require the production of any evidence that an assignment of rights or duties has in fact been made.
(2) The enactments to which this section applies are-
(a) any enactment passed before the commencement
of this Ordinance; and
(b) any enactment passed after the commencement of this Ordinance which does not expressly provide that this section shall not apply thereto; and
(c) the enactments contained in this Ordinance other than the proviso to subsection (1) to this section.
(3) Where provision has been made to the like or similar effect as is contained in subsection (1) by any enactment passed before the commencement of this Ordinance or where any such enactment enables the Solicitor General to exercise in whole or in part or in certain circumstances any right or duty to be exercised or discharged by the Attorney General such provision shall be deemed to have been repealed hereby and the provisions of this section substituted in lieu thereof.
9. Any certificate purporting to be a certificate given by the Attorney General under the provisions of section 4 hereof and any document purporting to bear the fiat of or express the consent of the Attorney General shall be received as prima facie evidence in any proceeding without proof being given that the signature to such certificate or document is that of the Attorney General.
10. Wherever in any enactment reference is made to the stitution of Crown Solicitor there shall be substituted a reference to the Attorney
General
for Crown
Solicitor.
Attorney General.
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11, (c) It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to make rules Fees and providing either generally or specially for the fees and costs costs, of legal officers in contentious and non-contentious matters : Provided that no such rules shall be binding until the same have been approved by resolution of the Legislative Council and have been published in the Gazette.
(2) Any costs and fees received by a legal officer here- under shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.
the
12. It shall be lawful for the Governor by order to amend Power of the Schedule in any manner consistent with the Appropriation Governor Ordinance from time to time in force.
13. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall-
to amend Schedule.
Right to practise as
(a) be deemed to confer upon a person who has not barrister been duly admitted any right to practise as a barrister or solicitor solicitor after he has ceased to be a legal officer; or
or
(b) detract from the professional status of any legal officer or affect the right of any duly admitted person to practise unaffected as a barrister or solicitor as the case may be after he has ceased
by to be a legal officer.
of
after ceasing to be a legal officer
provisions
Ordinance.
14. The Crown Counsel's Fees Ordinance, 1903, and the Repeal of Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1912, are hereby repealed.
SCHEDULE.
Altorney General Solicitor General Crown Solicitor Registrar General Legal Draftsman
Crown Counsel
Assistant Crown Solicitor
Deputy Registrar General.
Ordinance No. 24 of 1903 and Ordinance No. 35 of
1912.
[Sections 2 & 12.]
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 8th day of March, 1950.
Кокий Clerk of Councils.