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Charging anders. 22 and 23 Geo. 5 4.37, 1.69.

Revival of order (cor payment of costs.

33 and 34 Vict.

4.28, Ng.

Regulations

by Chief

Justice.

Comminee may act Bor Society.

Authentication of Society's rules and documents.

22 and 23 Geo. 5 C.37. 175.

Committee

may inspect

file in bankruptcy. 2a and 13 Gro. 5 0.37 1.76.

(2) The certificate of the toxing officer by whom any bill has been taxed shall, unless it is set aside or altered by the court, be final as to the amount of the costs covered thereby, and the court may make such order in relation thereto as it thinks fit, including in a case where the retainer is not disputed an order that judgment be entered for the sum certified to be due with costs.

63. Any court in which a solicitor has been employed to prosecute or defend any suit, matter or proceeding may at any time declare the solicitor entitled to a charge on the property recovered or preserved through his instrumentality for his taxed coats in reference to that suit, matter or proceeding and may make such orders for the taxation of the said costs and for raising money to pay, or for paying, the said coats out of the said property, as it thinks fit, and all conveyancos and acts done to defect, or operating to defeat, that charge, shell, except in the case of o conveyance to a bona fide purchaser for value without notice, he void as against the solicitor: Provided that no order shall be made if the right to cover the costs is barred by any statute of limitations.

64. Whenever any judgment or order has been made for payment of costs in any action and such action afterwards becomes abated, it shall be lawful for any person interested under such judgment or order to revive such action, and thereupon to prosecute and enforce such judgment or order, and so from time to time as often as any such abatement may happen.

PART IV.

MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.

65. The Chief Justice may, for the purposes of the execution of Part I, make general regulations with respect to the following matters or any of them, that is to say, the admission of a person as a solicitor, and the duties of the registrar with respect to the keeping of the roll,

66. All ucts and rules authorized or required to be done or made by the Society under or in pursuance of this Ordinance, pr any order or rules made in pursuance of this Ordinance may be doue or

made on behalf of the Society by the Committee or E sub-committee thereof duly appointed for the purpose.

67. All rales, certificates, notices and other documents made or issued by the Society for any purpose whatsoever may be signed on behalf of the Society by the secretary, or by such other officer of the Society as may be from time to time prescribed by the Committee.

68. The Committee shall be entitled, without payment of any fee, to inspect the file of proceedings in bankruptcy relating to any solicitor against whom proceedings in bankruptcy have been taken and to be supplied with office copies of the proceedings on payment of the usual charge for such copies.

members of

69. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prejudice or affect any Savings for rights or privileges of any member of the Colonial Logal Service,

Colonial Legal or require any such member as aforesaid or any clerk or officer Service, clc. appointed to act for him to be admitted or enrolled in any case za and 23 where it would not have been necessary for him to be admitted or Gen. 5 enrolled if this Ordinance had not been passed.

4.37. *.77.

70. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any enactment Savings for empowering any person, not being a qualified salinitor, to conduct, PL defend or otherwise act in relation to any legal proceedings.

authorized to conduct legal proceedings.

2 and 23 Goo. 5

5.37. 5.79-

71. Any person duly admitted as a solicitor shall be an officer Office of of the Supreme Court, and shall be subject to the jurisdiction Supreme thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Supreme Court Jurisdiction Ordinance, 1873.

Coure

22 and 23 Geo. 5

4-37, 4.8o. and Ordinance No. 3 E 183.

and any

Repeals. Ordinance

72. (1) The Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871. Ordinance amending" the same are hereby ropealed save to the No. of extent specified in sub-section (1) of section 3.

1871.

Ordinance.

(2) Any admission, appointment, approval, enrolment, Admissions, notice, certificate, instrument, order, rule, regulation, direction, orders, etc. appeal or proceeding under or for the purposes of any enactment under repealed roponled by this ordinance shall be treated as an admission, appointorent, approval, enrolment, notice, certificate, instrument, order, rule, regulation, direction, appeal or proceeding under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of this Ordinance.

(3) Any document referring to any Ordinance or enact- ment repealed by this Ordinance shall be construed as referring to this Ordinance or the corresponding enactment in this Orlin- ance, and any register, roll or list kept under any ordinance or enactment so repealed shall be deemed part of the register, roil or list to be kept under the corresponding provisions of this Ordinance.

(4) Nothing in this section shall shall affect the general application of sections 12 and 14 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1011, with regard to the effect of repeals.

Ordinance No. 31 of

II.

73. Any person who, after the date on which this Ordinance Provisions comes into force, intends to present himself for examination or as to

examination. to apply for admission, shall, notwithstanding that he shall before

admission, Auch date have served a part or the whole of the term he is or was etc., to apply bound under articles, comply with the relevant provisions of this from date of Ordinance: Provided that where on the date of the coming into this Ordinance.