Fees for examination,
harrister from service under
(2) The Chief Justice on the application of the Society may from time to time with the approval of the Legislative Council amend or vary suel regulations.
(3) Any person who shall have duly passed the final examination prescribed by this section shall be qualified to apply for admission as a solicitor.
19. Any person applying to be examined or re-examined at an examination shall pay to the Society in respect of those examinations, such fees as way from time to time be prescribed by regulation.
Exemption of 20. (1) Any barrister of not less than five years standing at disbarred the English bar who procures himself to be disbärred with a view to becoming a solicitor and obtains from two benchers of the Inn articles. of Court to which he belongs or belonged, a certificate of his being a fit and proper person to practise as a solicitor shall be exemptad from service under articles and from such part of the final examination as relates to articles and service thereunder.
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Notice of invention
to apply
(2) Any such person upon giving the prescribed notice and complying with the regulations in so far as they shall apply and passing the prescribed final examination shall be a person qualified for admission as a solicitor.
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21. Every candidate who has qualified for admission an solicitor under section 18 shall give two weeks' notice in writing to the registrar and to the Society of his intention to apply for for admission, admission: Provided always that the Chief Justice may, on any special grounds, make an order dispensing with all or any of the formalities prescribed by this section.
Foriber Coronalities
on applying
22. Every such candidate who has qualified for admissio and who has served part of the prescribed period as an articled clerk to a solicitor practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, for admission and the other part to a solicitor practising in this Colony shall, in addition to the formalities prescribed by sections 4 and 5 in respect of the articles therein mentioned, and before he can be admitted and enrolled, produce to the registrar and the Society the articles under which he has become Ïound to such solicitor practising in Grøst Britain or Northern Ireland and every assign- ment thereof, and shall make and awear, or duly canas to be made nad sword, such affidavits in relation thereto as
are prescribed by section 4 in respect of the articles therein mentioned; and the provisions of section 5 shall likewise apply to articles whereby such candidate has been bound to serve any solicitor practising in Great Britain or Northern Treland and to any assignment thereof: Provided always that the Chief Justice may, on special grounds and on such conditions as he may think proper, exempt any such person from complying with the formalities prescribed by this section, either absolutely or for any special period.
Evidence of
service.
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23. (1) Every such candidate except as provided by section 20 shall, before he can be admitted and enrolled, prove by an affidavit or affidavits of himself and of the solicitor or solicitore practising in Great Britain or Northern Treland or in this Colony to whom he was bound, to be duly made and filed in the court, that he has actually and really served and been employed by such
practising solicitor or solicitors during the period required by Section 10 as modified by section 17, and that he has not during such period held say office or been engaged in any employment whatsoever other than the employment of clerk to much" 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 BARRISTENS AND SOLICITORS
AND REGISTRATION OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.
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 registered as such under the provisions of this Ordinance,
Lice unless admitted, 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
(*) bas 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
Ordinance, period under articles to such soliciter 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-
(1), he has passed the preliminary examination prescribed in this Part or its equivalent or has been exempted under sub-section () 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
26. The court shall have power to approve, admit and enrol Power of Us na barristers such persons as have been called to the Bar in court to admit
and enrol England or Northern Ireland or have been admitted as advocates burrikters 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.
under
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
(a) if a barrister or advocate, shall deposit with the section 36. 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;
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