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Fees for examination,

Exemption of dieburned barrister froTI service under articles. az and a3 Geo. S

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Notice of intention to apply

(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 such 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 ni may from time to time be prescribed by regulation.

20. (1) Any barrister of not less than five years standing at the English bar who procures himself to be disbärred with a view to becoming a solicitor and obtains from two benchers of the Inn 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 exempted from service wider articles and from such part of the fual examination as relates to articles and service thereunder.

(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 grounda, make an order dispensing with all or any of the formalities prescribed by this section.

Fariber Coronalities

on applying

22. Every such candidate who has qualified for admission and who has served part of the prescribed period as an articled clark 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 bound to auch solicitor practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland and every assign- ment thereof, and shall make and swear, or duly cause to be made and sword, such affidavits in relation thereto ns 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 Ireland 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 solicitora practising in Great Britain or Northern Treland or in this Colmy 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

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practising solicitor or solicitors during the period required by section 10 as modified by section 17, and that he has not during such period beld any 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.

ÁDMISSION AND ENROLMENT

of BarrisTERS 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 unless registered as such under the provisions of this Ordinance.

or registered.

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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

(a) bas actually exclusively and bona fide served for the solicitore 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 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 (1) 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 na barristers such persona as have been called to the Bar in court to admit England or Northern Ireland or havo been admitted on 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.

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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 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;