LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 159).

Legal Practitioners (QuaLIFICATION PROCEDURE) RULES, 1962.

Io exercise of the powers conferred by section 65 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance. the Chief Justice has made the following rules---

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1. These rules may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Qualifica- Citation and tion Procedure) Rules, 1962 and shall come into operation on the first meat. day of January, 1963.

The form of the certificates. notices, forms and statutory Forms. declarations set out in the Schedule shall, duly completed, be used in Scheduls. the cases to which they respectively refer with such variations and additions as the circumstances of the particular case require.

3. (1) A candidate for either part of the qualifying examination Notics of shalt

(a) give notice, as hereinafter provided, to the Society of his intention to sit for such examination stating whether or not he will present himself for examination in England or Hong Kongs (b) at the same time, pay to the Society the fee specified in the

Fourth Schedule to the Ordinance; and

(c) if he is serving or has served under articles, lodge with the Society a statutory declaration as to service under articles and. where applicable, as to passing or being exempted from the Part 1 or intermediate examination.

(2) It shall not be necessary for a candidate for re-examination to lodge the statutory declaration referred to in sub-paragraph (1) unless

he is specifically required to do so by notice in writing by the Society.

4.

The notice required by rule 3 shall be as follows-

(a) in the case of a candidate seeking to sit for either part of the qualifying examination for the first time. not less than three months' notice:

intention to sit the qualifying excantination.

Length of notice.

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