1967-HKRS30-8-58_Part05 — Page 52

Fion Schedule, Form 4.

Amendment of Tule 6.

3.

Revocation

and replace. ment of rule 9.

ment of the prescribed fee, shall re-enrol the person concerned as a student.

(5) The Registrar, on re-enrolling a person as a student in accordance with paragraph (4), shall issue to such person a certificate of re-enrolment in accord- ance with Form 4 in the First Schedule and shall forward a copy of such certificate to the Society.".

Rule 6 of the principal rules is amended—

(a) by deleting “rule" and substituting therefor the follow-

ing-

"rules 9 and"; and

(b) by deleting "practising solicitor in the Colony or partly to a practising solicitor in the Colony and partly to a practising solicitor in England or Wales" and substitut- ing therefor the following-

4.

"qualified solicitor".

Rule 9 of the principal rules is revoked and replaced by

the following-

"Service of articles.

9. (1) Subject to the provisions of these rules every articled clerk shall during the whole term of his articles be actually employed in the proper busi- ness, practice and employment of a solicitor by the solicitor to whom he is articled.

(2) Subject to paragraph (5) of rule 16 ao articled clerk during a continuous period of not less than two years occurring after he shall have passed the Part I examination or have been granted total exemption therefrom shall not, save with the consent of the Society, be allowed any absence from the office of the solicitor to whom he is articled and during such period he may not present himself for the Part II examination.

(3) An articled clerk may, with the permission of the solicitor to whom he is articled, spend a period not exceeding one year employed in the proper prac- tice business and employment of another solicitor provided that such solicitor is eligible to take an articled clerk under section 20 of the Ordinance and there is not a prohibition in force under section 21 of the Ordinance in respect of such solicitor, and such period shall be reckoned as if it were a period with and in the office of the solicitor to whom the clerk is articled and as good service under articles.

(4) Subject to paragraph (2) and for the purposes of this rule, the following shall be reckoned as if they were periods of employment with the solicitor to whom the clerk is articled and as good service under articles, that is to say-

(a) where the term of articles is five years-----

(b)

(i) a period not exceeding twelve months during the first two and a half years of the term to prepare for the Part I examination; and

(ii) a period not exceeding six months to prepare for the Part II examination; where the term of articles is four years, à period not exceeding six months to prepare for the Part II examination:

(c) where the term of articles is three years—

(i) a period not exceeding six months to prepare for the Part I examination; and

(ii) a period not exceeding six months to prepare for the Part II examination:

(d) where the term of articles is two and a hall years, a period not exceeding six months to prepare for the Part 11 examination:

(e) any day during which such clerk sits any

part of the qualifying examination;

(f) such period as the Society in its discretion may permit to be so reckoned, including any period of articled clerkship in England or Wales.".

5. Rule 10 of the principal rules is amended in paragraph

(2) by inserting the following after "then"-

6.

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unless the Society otherwise directs,".

Amendment of

rule 10.

rule 11.

Rule 11 of the principal rules is amended in paragraph Amendment of (1) by deleting "a solicitor" where these words first occur and substituting therefor the following-

"the solicitor”.

7. Rule 14 of the principal rules is amended by deleting paragraph (6) and substituting therefor the following-

"(b) he has passed or been exempted from each part of

the qualifying examination.”.

Amendment of rule 14.