SUPPLEMENT NO. 1, JULY 16, 1948.
practising solicitor or solicitors during the period required by section 16 as modified by section 17, and that he has not during such period held any office or been engaged in any employment whatsoever other than the employment of clerk to such solicitor or solicitors and his or their partner or their partner or partners, if any, in the business, practice or employment of a solicitor.
(2) The affidavit shall be in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice.
ADMISSION AND ENROLMENT
OF BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS
AND REGISTRATION OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.
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24. No person shall practise in this Colony as a barrister or Prohibition as a solicitor unless he has been approved, admitted and enrolled against prac- as such by the court, or as a notary public unless he has been admitted, registered as such under the provisions of this Ordinance.
tice unless
enrolled or registered.
25. The court shall have power to approve, admit and enrol Power of the as a solicitor any person, being a British subject, who-
court to admit and enrol
Ordinance.
(a) has actually exclusively and bona fide served for the solicitors period required by sections 16 and 17 as a clerk under articles to qualified any solicitor actually practising in the Colony or part of such under this period under articles to such solicitor and the other part under articles to any solicitor actually practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, or being a barrister has complied with the provisions of section 20, and has been sworn in the manner herein directed and has fulfilled all the conditions of this ordinance in relation to such admission;
(b) has obtained from the Society or some person autho- rized in writing by the Society a certificate that-
(i) he has passed the preliminary examination prescribed in this Part or its equivalent or has been exempted under sub-section (3) of section 3 or is a person to whom section 20 applies,
(ii) he has passed the final examination prescribed
by this Ordinance, and
court.
(iii) he is in other respects fit to be an officer of the
and enrol
26. The court shall have power to approve, admit and enrol Power of the as barristers such persons as have been called to the Bar in court to admit England or Northern Ireland or have been admitted as advocates barristers and in Scotland and to approve admit and enrol as solicitors in the solicitors court such persons as have been admitted as attorneys, solicitors from England or proctors in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.
or Northern Ireland.
27. Every person who desires to be admitted under section 26 Formalities for to practise in the court in any of the capacities therein mentioned- admission
under
(a) if a barrister or advocate, shall deposit with the section 26. registrar his certificate of call to the bar, and shall file in the court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice;