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From:

L.

FORM 16.

STUDENTS RULES.

[rule 17.]

CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION FROM EXAMINATIONS.

The Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong.

Name:

Address:

This is to certify that by reason of the matters set out below the above-named is hereby exempted from sitting-

(a) The whole of the Part Il examination.

(b) The following Heads of the Part II examination—

2. The reasons for such exemption are-

(a) The above-named passed the Part II examination held in England

in

(b) The above-named passed the following Heads of the Part (1

examination held in England in

(c) in paragraph 4, by deleting "three years" and substituting

therefor the following-

"two and a half years or, if he has neither passed the Part I examination nor been granted total excmp- tion therefrom, the term shall be three years.".

G. SINCLAIR STEVENSON,

M. P, K. WONG, Member.

P. P. Y. YUEN, Member.

P. J. THOMPSON, Member.

Chairman.

T. S. LO. Member.

D. Q. CHEUNG, Member.

CHARLES SIN,

Member.

Dated

19...........

SHIRLEY Woo, Secretary,

Amendment of

Second Schedule.

Signed

Secretary to the Society".

14. The Second Schedule to the principal rules is amended- (a) by deleting paragraph and substituting therefor the

following-

**1. In the case of a person who, before entering into articles, has either-

(a) presented himself with the consent of the Society for and has passed not less than three Heads of the Part II examination, ar (b) been exempled by the Society from sitting not less than three Heads of the Part II examination.

the term shall be two years.":

(b) in paragraphs 2 and 3, by inserting the following after "years" where that word occurs in each paragraph-

"or, if he has neither passed the Part I examination nor been granted total exemption therefrom, the term shall be three years", and

28th November 1968.

Approved this 28th day of November 1968.

Explanatory Note.

Chief Justice,

(This Note is not part of the rules, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

The purpose of these rules is to bring up-to-date the principal rules which are at present largely based on the conditions applicable on 1st January 1953 in England and Wales to a student secking to qualify for admission as a solicitor there. Since that date various alterations of these conditions have occurred in England and Wales, and these rules- principally rules 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 13-apply such of these alterations as seem appropriate and practicable to be introduced in Hong Kong.

1. Rule 2 prescribes in detail the procedure concerning the TE- enrolmeat of a student. The present reference in rule 5(1) of the principal rules to a student not being "permitted" in certain circumstances to coler into articles until his re-enrolment is removed as inappropriate.