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Amendment

of section 20.

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(2) A candidate for either part of the qualifying examination shall give notice to the Society and the regis trar of his intention to sit pursuant to the rules made here- under.

(3) Save as provided by section 20, no person shall be entitled to sit for the Part 11 examination unless he has passed either the law portion of the intermediate examina- tion or the Part I examination or been exempted from such law portion or Part I examination by the Society.

(4) The Society may exempt any person from sitting the Part 1 examination or any head or heads thereof in any case where such person would be entitled to exemption in virtue of regulation 44 of the Students Regulations, 1962, if he were a person to whom those regulations applied.

(5) A person seeking exemption under subsection (4) shall make application to the Society and lodge therewith a certificate from the Registrar of the appropriate University or other appropriate official as to the examination and the heads in which the applicant has passed in the examination on which he relies together with such further evidence as the Society may require.

(6) Where a person has entered into articles for five years and more than two and a half years of the term of articles has expired before he passes the Part I examina- tion, or is granted total exemption therefrom then, unless the Society otherwise directa, no service under articles by that person after the expiry of the said two and a half years will be reckoned as good service under articles until such time as he shall have passed the Part 1 examination or has been granted total exemption therefrom,”.

12. Section 20 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a)

in subsection (1), by the deletion of the words "such part of the final examination as relates to articles and service there- under" and the substitution therefor of the following-

*the Part 1 examination and shall not be required to enrol as a student with the registrar”; and

(b) in subsection (2)—–

(i) by the deletion of the words "prescribed notice" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"notice required by section 18"; and

(i) by the deletion of the words "prescribed final" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"Part II".

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13. Section 21 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by the deletion of the word "section" and the substitution

therefor of the following-

"sections"; and

(b) by the insertion, after the figure "18", of the following-

"and 20",

14. Section 22 of the principal Ordinance is amended-- (a) by the insertion, after the words “admission and who", of the

following-

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by virtue of subsection (2) of section 16."; and

(b) by the deletion of the words and commas "and swear, or duly cause to be made and sworn, such affidavits" and the substitu- tion therefor of the following-

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"or cause to be made such statutory declarations”.

Section 23 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(4) in subsection (1), by the deletion of the words "an affidavit or affidavits" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"a statutory declaration or declarations"; and

(b) in subsection (2), by the deletion of the word "affidavit” and

the substitution therefor of the following—

"statutory declaration".

Amendment

of section 21.

Amendment

of section 12,

Amendment

of section 23.

16. Section 25 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and by the following new section---

"Power of the court to admit and

enrol

solicitors qualifted under this Ordinance.

25. (1) The court shall have power to approve, admit and enrol as a solicitor any person, being a British subject, who qualifies for admission by virtue of section 18 or 20. (2) Persons qualifying for admission by virtue of sec- tion 18 shall file in court a certificate by the Society that-

(a) he has passed the requisite examinations; (5) he has served the requisite term of articles; and (c) is in other respects fit to be an officer of the court.

(3) Persons qualifying for admission by virtue of sec- tion 20 shall file in court-

(a) the certificate by two benchers referred to in sub-

section (1) of section 20; and

(b) a certificate from the Society that he has passed

the requisite examinations.".

replacemical of section 24.