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Amendment

of Firel Schedule,

of absence to be reckoned as if it were a period of employment with the principal and as good service under articles.".

The First Schedule to the principal rules is amended by inserting after Form 16 the following new forin-

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and who has passed the Part 1 examination or has been granted total exemption therefrom, the term shall be two and a half years; or, if he has neither passed the Part I examination nor been granted total exemption therefrom, the term shall be three years."*.

"Form 17.

Student RULES.

[rule 6.]

APPLICATION FOR A REDUCTION IN THE TERM OF ARTICLES BY A GRADUATE OF A UNIVERSITY OTHER THAN

To: The Secretary,

A RECOGNIZED UNIVERSITY.

The Law Society of Hong Kong. 1. ta

of th

berchy apply that the term of articles applicable to me shall be the term that would have been applicable had 1 taken a degree at a university specißed in the Second Schedule to the Students Regulations 1962.

I produce the following evidence of having taken a degree at a university other than a university specified in the said Schedule. 6)

Dated this

day of

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T. 5. Lo. Chairman.

PETER C. WONG, Member.

A. R. CHETTLE, Member.

I. R. A. MACCALLUM, Member.

G. SINCLAIR STEVENSON,

C. H. WONG, Member.

CHARLES C. C. SIN. Member.

Member.

D. Q. CHEUNG, Member.

P. P. Y. YUAN, Member.

CELINA LAW, Secretary.

Amendment

of Second Schedule.

(e) Full me of applican

(8) Addreu.

(Signed)

(2) This will pormally be a cercdicate from the Ualversier Realsirat ad Olber appropriate

Dead should set out full details of the degree..

S. The Second Schedule to the principal rules is amended by deleting paragraph 2 and substituting the following-

*"*2. In the case of a person who, before entering into articles-

(a) has taken a degree, not being an honorary degree, at the University or any university specified in the Second Schedule to the Students Regulations 1962, or is in a position to supplicate for such degree; or

(b) has taken a degree, not being an honorary degree.

at a university other than

(i) the University; or

(ii) a university specified in the Second Schedule to the Students Regulations 1962,

and has by virtue thereof successfully applied to the Society for a reduction in the term of his articles,

Dated this 30th day of July 1970.

Approved this 29th day of July 1970.

Abselde

Acting Chief Justice.

Explanatory Note.

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

These rules bring rules 6 and 9 of the principal rules into line with the Training Regulations of the Law Society of England and Wales.

A graduate of a university which is not mentioned in the Second Schedule to the Students Regulations 1962 may now apply to the Society for a reduction of the term of articles and if his application is successful, the term of articles will be the same as if he were a graduate at a univer- sity so mentioned. Rules 2 and 5 which amend rule 6 and the Second Schedule to the principal rules respectively provide accordingly,