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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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(h) non-contentious business" includes any business connected with sales, purchases, leases, mortgages, settlements and other matters of conveyancing;

(i) "qualified barrister" shall not include a person who has not been approved, admitted and enrolled as such under section. 26 or a barrister whose name has been removed from or struck off the roll and has not been restored or a barrister suspended at any material time from practice;

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(j) qualified notary" shall not include a person who has not been registered as a notary public under section 31 or a notary public whose name has been removed from or struck off the register kept under section 31 and has not been restored or a notary public suspended at any material time from practice;

(k) "the registrar means the Registrar of the court; "solicitor" means a solicitor of the Supreme Court; (m) "unqualified person means a person who has not been duly approved, admitted and enrolled as a solicitor, under this or any previous Ordinance or who, being such a solicitor, is at any material time suspended from practice or whose name has been struck off or removed from the roll and has not been restored; and

females.

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any term importing the masculine gender shall include

PART I.

ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION OF LEGAL PRACTITIONERS. Service and examination of articled clerks.

Regulations

3. (1) The Chief Justice may make regulations, subject to for preliminary the approval of the Legislative Council, for the preliminary examination. examination of persons intending to become bound under articles 23 and 24

of clerkship to solicitors in order to ascertain the fitness of such Vict. c.127,

persons to become so bound, having regard to their general learning and education and to their character and conduct and until such regulations_shall have been made the existing regulations made under the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871, shall remain in force.

s.8.

Ordinance No

I of 1871.

Second Schedule.

(2) No such preliminary examination shall be necessary in the case of any person who has passed the matriculation or other corresponding examination of any university specified in the Second Schedule, or who has passed an examination which would in England exempt him from passing the preliminary examination. of the Law Society there or which would permit him to enter the University of Hongkong without further examinations.

(3) The Chief Justice may in special circumstances exempt any person from the preliminary examination or any part thereof either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he may think fit.

(4) Articles of clerkship shall be null and void unless the intended articled clerk has passed one of the examinations referred to in sub-section (2) or has passed the preliminary examination referred to in sub-section (1) or has obtained from