Re- enrolment.
First Schedule, Form 1,
Term of Articles.
Second Schedule.
Notice of articles.
First
Schedule, Form 5.
First Schedule, Form 6.
Registration
of articles.
5. (1) Any person, who, having enrolled as a student in accordance with the provisions of rule 4, does not enter into articles within two years of the issue to him of a certificate of enrolment under that rule shall not be permitted to enter into articles until he is re- enrolled as a student in accordance with the provision of this rule.
(2) A person who wishes to re-enrol as a student under this rule shall lodge with the Registrar an application in writing in accordanca with Form 3 in the First Schedule together with the written consent of the Society to bis re-enrolment which may be granted upon the same terms as a consent under rule 3 and, on payment of the prescribed fee, the Registrar shall re-enrol such person.
6.
PART IEL
ARTICLES OF Clerkship.
Except as is provided by rule 20, no person shall be admitted as a solicitor by virtue of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of sub- section (1) of section 4 of the Ordinance unless he has been bound by articles to serve as an articled clerk to a practising solicitor in the Colony or partly to a practising solicitor in the Colony and partly to a practising solicitor in England or Wales for such term as is required by the Second Schedule and has duly served under articles for that term.
7. (1) Not less than six weeks before any person becomes bound by articles he shall give notice to the Society of his intention so to de in accordance with Form 5 in the First Schedule and shall pay to the Society the prescribed fee:
Provided that in the case of assignment of articles or further articles the Society may reduce such period of notice to such period as it may consider reasonable under the circumstances.
(2) Every such notice shall state the intended term of the articles and in the event of the term being less than five years there shall be furnished to the Society such evidence as the Society may reasonably require to show why the term should be less than five years.
(3) If the Society is satisfied with the length of the intended term. the Society shall issue to such person a certificate in accordance will Form 6 in the First Schedule stating the Society's agreement with length of the intended term.
B. (1) No articles shall be registered unless the articled clerk to whom the articles relate bas first been enrolled in accordance with rule 4 or re-enrolled in accordance with rule 5.
(2) Save with the consent of the Chief Justice, which may be granted upon such terms as he may consider appropriate, no articles may be lodged with the Registrar for registration after the expiry of one month from the execution thereof.
(3) All articles shall be produced to the Society for registration and the Society, on being satisfied by a statutory declaration as to the due execution of the articles and on payment of the prescribed fee, shall record the names and addresses of the articled clerk and the solicitor with whom he has entered into articles, the term of articles and the date thereof and the date of the making of the entry in a register which shall be open to the inspection of any person during office hours without payment.
(4) When articles are lodged with the Registrar for registration, there shall be paid to the Registrar the prescribed fee and there shall be lodged with them-
(e) a statutory declaration by the solicitor to whom the articled clerk is bound that the solicitor is duly admitted and that the solicitor complies with the requirements of subsections (1). (2) and (3) of section 20 of the Ordinance;
(b) a statutory declaration of the due execution of the articles in
accordance with Form 7 in the First Schedule; and
Firs Schedule,
(c) a certificate issued by the Society in accordance with the Form 7.
provisions of paragraph (3) of rule 7.
(5) Where further articles entered into in accordance with the provisions of rule 13 are lodged with the Registrar for registration, there shall be paid to the Registrar the prescribed fee and there shall be lodged with them-
(a) his original articles and any new or further articles already
registered:
(b) his new or further articles for registration:
Schedule. Forto 7
(c) a statutory declaration in accordance with Farm 7 in the First First Schedule, verifying the due execution of the new or further articles lodged for registration; and
(d) where appropriate a certificate of re-enrolment as a student.
(6) The Registrar, not later than one month after the production
to him for registration of any articles and on being satisfied as to the correctness thereof and of the other documents lodged therewith, shall-
(0) register the articles;
(b) endorse thereon a memorandum of the date on which the
same were registered; and
(c) return the articles to the required clerk.