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for such admission or registration by this Ordinance, subject to such conditions as may appear necessary;

(v) providing for the duties of the Registrar in connexion with such admissions and registrations:

(vi) providing for the forms of the roll of solicitors, the roll of barristers and the register of notaries public, the mode in which they shall be kept and the contents thereof;

(vi) prescribing any fees payable in connexion with such admissions and registrations:

(viii) regulating the issue to barristers and solicitors of practising certificates and the fees payable for, the conditions of issue of, the manner of applying for, the period and form of, the publication of the issue and suspension of and the form of such practising certificates and generally in relation thereto, and the transfer to the Society of the whole or any part of any fee paid in respect of a practising certificate issued to a solicitor;

(ix) imposing in such manner as may appear necessary a requirement, in relation to the issue of a practising certificate to a solicitor, of membership of the Society; and

(x) regulating the granting of exemption from the provisions of any of such rules and of the compliance with any terms imposed upon the grantees of such exemption and prescribing the form of any statutory declaration evidencing such com- pliance:

(b) in relation to the conduct of barristers, to provide for-

(1) the laying of a complaint before the Committee of Enquiry.

(ii) the conduct of proceedings before a Committee of Enquiry:

(ii) the submission of the report of a Committee of Enquiry to the Full Court and its consideration by the Full Court; and (iv) the procedure for making an application, under section 38, to vary or discharge an order of the Full Court and for hearing any such application; and

(c) generally to prescribe or provide for-

(i) any other certificate, form or other document required under this Ordinance;

(ii) any other fee which is required to be prescribed under this Ordinance:

(iii) the better carrying into effect of the provisions of this Ordinance; and

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(iv) anything which under this Ordinance is to be or may be prescribed by the Chief Justice.

73. (1) The Committee may make rules-

(a) providing for→→

(i) the professional conduct and discipline of solicitors, their employees and articled clerks;

(ii) the restriction of payment of commission to unqualified persons; and

(iii) for the purpose of harmonizing the relationship of solicitors inter se and, with the prior approval of the Bar Committee, governing the relationship of solicitors and barristers;

(b) in relation to the keeping by solicitors of accounts, providing

for-

() the opening and keeping by solicitors of accounts at banks of clients' money:

(ii) the keeping by solicitors of accounts containing partic. ulars and information as to monies received, held or paid both for or on account of their clients;

(ii) empowering the Committee to take such action as may be necessary to enable them to ascertain whether or not such rules are being complied with:

(iv) regulating the manner in which solicitors shall deal with money held by them in a fiduciary capacity and the books of accounts to be kept in respect thereof and for the auditing of such accounts;

(v) the qualifications to be held by an accountant by whom an accountant's certificate may be given:

(vi) the nature and extent of the examination to be made by the accountant of the books and accounts of a solicitor or of his firm and of any other relevant documents with a view to the signing of a certificate to be delivered by the solicitor under section 8:

(vii) the form of the accountant's certificate,

(viii) the evidence, if any, which shall satisfy the Committee that the delivery of an accountant's certificate is unnecessary and the cases in which such evidence is or is not required;

(ix) specifying in such circumstances as may be set forth in the rules a different accounting period from that specified in subsection (2) of section B; and

(x) regulating any matters of procedure or matters incident- al, ancillary or supplemental to the provisions of section 8;

Power of the Committee to make rules.