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HONG KONG.

No. 46 or 1947.

1 assent,

Governor.

7th November, 1947.

An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners Ordinance,

1871.

[7th November, 1947.1

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may he cited as the Legal Prac- titioners Amendment Ordinance, 1947, and shall be read as one with the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.

2. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the following section as section 9A immediately after section 9 thereof :-

"Fresh

mrbiclen

in GRA

of death or retire- ment of

9A. (1) Where before the expiration of the term for which a clerk is articled the solicitor to whom he is articled ceases to practise as a solicitor, or dies, or his articles are cancelled by mutual splicitor or consent or discharged by the court, the clerk may if articles be bound by fresh articles to another practising discharged. solicitor for the residue of the said term and service under those articles in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be good service.

Cancelled ne

(2) The provisions of this Ordinance with respect to the registration of articles shall apply to fresh articles entered into in accordance with the provisions of this section."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 6th day of November, 1947.

Alastain Joh

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

Bhort เฟ

Ordinance No. 1 of 1871.

Addition of section BA

to the

principal Ordinance.