Restriction on employment of articled
clerks.
26 Geo.
Edw. *.35.6.1.
Nation of articles to
8. (1) No solicitor who has not at some time been în continuous practice as a solicitor for a period of five years shall, without special leave in writing of the Society, take any articled and clerk.
(2) No solicitor shall take or retain any articled clerk after he has ceased to practice as a solicitor in the Colony or while he is employed as a clerk to another solicitor.
(3) A solicitor shall not be deemed to have ceased to practise as a solicitor in the Colony for any period between the 26th December, 1941, and the 30th August, 1945: Provided that for the purpose of this Ordinance, no service under articles of clerkship shall between the said dates count towards any prescribed period of service under articles.
(4) Service by an articled clerk to a solicitor who has taken him in contravention of the provisions of this section shall not be deemed to be good service by the clerk under his articles.
9. (1) Not less than six weeks before any person becomes bound by articles of clerkship be shall give notice to the Society Society and evidence of of his intention so to do, and shall furnish the Society with such character, etc, evidence as to his character, and his fitness and suitability for 26 Geo. 5 and service under articles, us the Chief Justice may by rules require. (2) The Society, if they are satisfied with the evidence so furnished, aball issue to the person in question their written consent to his entry into articles.
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0.35.8.*.
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(3) The registrar shall refuse to register any articles produced to him under section 4 unless the articles are accompanied by a consent issund under this section and dated not earlier than one month before the date of production of the articles.
(4) Service by a clerk under articles of which registration has been refused under this section shall not be deemed to be good service by the clerk under his articles.
Articled clocks 10. Subject to the provisions of this Part, every articled olerk shall, during the whole term of his articles, be actually employed in the proper business, practice and employment of a solicitor by the solicitor to whom he is articled.
continuously
and nor
copaged in other cmployment.
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Gce. 5
5.374.19.
Arücled clarks not to take
other em-
ployment.
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Articled clarks
11. No person bound by articles of clerkship to any solicitor
as aforesaid shall, during the term of service mentioned in such articles, hold any office or engage in any employment whatsoever other than the employment of clerk to such solicitor and his partners if any, in the business, practice or employment of a solicitor.
Dot disqualified 12. No person shall be disqualified for admission as a solicitor, by disqualified or be liable to be struck off the roll, by reason only of any solicitor solicitor. whom he has served for any period having been after the termina- 22 and 23
tion of that period, removed from or struck off the roll.
Geo. 5
4.37.3.22,
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5
In case of
13. In case any solicitor to whom any clerk is articled becomes Discharge hunkrupt before the expiration of the farm, or executes a trust igament deed for the benefit of his creditore under auy Ordinance relating of articles to bankruptcy or te imprisoned for debt and remains in prison for bankruptcy. the space of twenty-one days, it shall be lawful for the court, on 6 and 7 Vict, the application of such clerk to order and direct the articles to 473-4-5- be discharged or assigned to auch person, on such terms and in such manner as the Court thinks fit.
14. I
Power of
(a) during the term of any articles the clerk has been Society to discharge continuously absent from the solicitor's place of business for articles in period of three months or longer (except with the consent of the certain cases. Committee or when the clerk shall proceed to England under the 16 Geo. 5 and provisions of Clause 17); or
(b) the Society are for any other reason of opinion that the articles ought to be discharged;
the Society may, on the application of the solicitor or the clerk discharge the articles upon such terms, including terms as to return of premium as they think fit, and determine what period, if any, of service by the clerk under the articles shall be deemed to be good service.
↑ Edw.
C.35.1.5.
15. (1) Where before the expiration of the term for which Fresh articles a clerk is articled the solicitor to whom he is articled ceases to
in certain cases. practise as a solicitor in the Colony, or dies, or his articles are
aa and 23 cancelled by mutual consent or discharged by the court or the Geo. 5 Society, the clerk may be bound by fresh articles to another 37-25 practising solicitor for the residue of the said term and service under those articles in accordance with the provisions of this Part shall be good service.
(2) The foregoing provisions of this Part with respect to the registration of articles shall apply to fresh articles entered into in accordance with the provisions of this section.
16. The term for which a person desirous of being admitted Term of na a solicitor, not being a person exempted from service under articles. articles by virtue of any provision of this Ordinance, is required G
12 and 23 to be bound by and serve under articles shall be determined in 5.373.15. accordance with the provisions of the First Schedule to this First Ordinance. Any part of such term may in lieu of being served Schedule. with a solicitor actually practising in the Colony be served with a solicitor actually practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.
17. Any period not exceeding one year during which any auch One year's person has been absent from the Colony in England and for the absence in purpose of travelling to and from England and of preparing for England to the final examination shall upon his satisfying the Society as to incle. such preparations be counted in the said period.
count in
examination.
18. (1) A person who has been bound by articles as aforesaid Notice to sit for the prescribed period, as modified by the provisions of section for fal 17, may give notice to the registrar and the Society of his intention to sit for the final examination pursuant to the regula- Regulations. tions contained in the Third Schedule hereto,
Third
Schedule.
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