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Special
25. (1) The following provisions shall apply to persons who modifications entered into articles before the 1st day of January, 1963, in place of in respect to section the provisions of section 17 of the principal Ordinance as amended by 17 of the
section 10 of this Ordinance.
principal
Ordinance.
Special
modification
in respect to section 18 of the
principal Ordinance.
Saving in
respect to
the First
(2) Two periods of absence each of not more than twelve months duration will be allowed to prepare respectively for the Part I and the Part II examinations:
Provided that-
(a) at least two years is bona fide spent in the principal's office and any deficit in such period of two years will have to be served under further articles before the service thereunder will be deemed to be good service; and
(6) any period of absence which before the 1st day of January, 1963, has been taken under the provisions of section 17 of the principal Ordinance before the amendment thereof by sec- tion 9 of this Ordinance shall be deducted from the first or only, as the case may be, period of twelve months permitted by this subsection.
26. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of sec- tion 18 of the principal Ordinance as amended by section 11 of this Ordinance, if any person who catered into articles before the 1st day of January, 1963, has passed the trust accounts and bookkeeping portion of the intermediate examination it shall not be necessary for him to pass the accounts head of the Part 11 examination in order to pass the Part II examination,
(2) Subsection (6) of section 18 of the principal Ordinance as amended by section II of this Ordinance shall not apply to any person whose articles are due to expire on or before the 1st day of March. 1966.
27. Notwithstanding the deletion of the First Schedule to the principal Ordinance the provisions thereof shall continue to apply to persons who enter into articles before the 1st day of January, 1963, in the principal place of the provisions substituted by section 19 of this Ordinance.
Schedule to
Ordinance.
Modification
of orders
made under
section 3(3)
of the principal
Ordinance.
28. Where, before the 1st day of January, 1963, an order has been made by the Chief Justice under subsection (3) of section 3 of the prin- cipal Ordinance exempting the person to whom the order relates from the preliminary examination upon terms that such person passes the intermediate examination such terms shall be deemed to have been satisfied if such person passes the law portion of the intermediate examination or Part I of the qualifying examination.
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This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 19th day of December, 1962, and is found by me to be a truc and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
Clerk of Councils.......
(Secretariat CR1/67/3231/47)