CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12] — Page 165

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Report by the Attorney General of HongKong.

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1. The laws and regulations which obtain

in this Colony Blfil, in my opinion, the conditions set forth

in sub-section 1 of section 2 of the Colonial Soliciter's Act

1900.

2.

Those laws and regulations are contain-

ed in Ordinance No.3 of 1871 as amended by Ordinance No.13 of

1884, and see also section 21 of Ordinance No.9 of 1899 and

section 3 of Ordinance No.32 of 1899.

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3. Before a person can be admitted as

Solicitor of the Supreme Court of HongKong he must have pre-

viously admitted in Great Britain or Ireland (see section 5

of Ordinance No.3 of 1871) or else have been an articled clæk

for five years and have passed the examinations.

4. As regards the examonations, the exam-

iners are the Attorney General with two or more other fit per

sons appointed by the Chief Justice in writing under the seal

of the Court.

Sections 17,18,19, and 20 of Ordinance No.

8 of 1871 deal with examinations. As no special regulations

have been made, the Examiners conform themselves so far as may

be practicable to the regulations for the time being by which

the examination of persons intending to become bound under

articles of clerkship and of candidates for admission to præ-

tise