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Fees for examination.

Exemption of disbarred

service under

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(2) The Chief Justice on the application of the Society may from time to time with the approval of the Legislative Council amend or vary such regulations.

(3) Any person who shall have duly passed the final examination prescribed by this section shall be qualified to apply for admission as a solicitor.

19. Any person applying to be examined or re-examined at an examination shall pay to the Society in respect of those examinations, such fees as may from time to time be prescribed by regulation.

20. (1) Any barrister of not less than five years standing at the English bar who procures himself to be disbarred with a view barrister from to becoming a solicitor and obtains from two benchers of the Inn of Court to which he belongs or belonged, a certificate of his being a fit and proper person to practise as a solicitor shall be exempted from service under articles and from such part of the final examination as relates to articles and service thereunder.

articles.

22 and 23 Geo. 5 C.37.S.34.

Notice of intention

to apply

(2) Any such person upon giving the prescribed notice and complying with the regulations in so far as they shall apply and passing the prescribed final examination shall be a person qualified for admission as a solicitor.

21. Every candidate who has qualified for admission as a solicitor under section 18 shall give two weeks' notice in writing to the registrar and to the Society of his intention to apply for for admission. admission: Provided always that the Chief Justice may, on any special grounds, make an order dispensing with all or any of the formalities prescribed by this section.

Further

formalities

on applying

22. Every such candidate who has qualified for admission and who has served part of the prescribed period as an articled clerk to a solicitor practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, for admission. and the other part to a solicitor practising in this Colony shall, in addition to the formalities prescribed by sections 4 and 5 in respect of the articles therein mentioned, and before he can be admitted and enrolled, produce to the registrar and the Society the articles under which he has become bound to such solicitor practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland and every assign- ment thereof, and shall make and swear, or duly cause to be made and sworn, such affidavits in relation thereto as are prescribed by section 4 in respect of the articles therein mentioned; and the provisions of section 5 shall likewise apply to articles whereby such candidate has been bound to serve any solicitor practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland and to any assignment thereof: Provided always that the Chief Justice may, on special grounds and on such conditions as he may think proper, exempt any such person from complying with the formalities prescribed by this section, either absolutely or for any special period.

Evidence of

service.

6 and 7 Vict. C.73.S.14, 23 and 24 Vict. C.127.3.10.

23. (1) Every such candidate except as provided by section 20 shall, before he can be admitted and enrolled, prove by an affidavit or affidavits of himself and of the solicitor or solicitors practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland or in this Colony to whom he was bound, to be duly made and filed in the court, that he has actually and really served and been employed by such