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Enclosure 1.

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BILL

intituled

An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners

Ordinance, 1871,

hort title.

endment of 5(2) of No.1

1971 as eneo- Sed by 6.3 of 3.19 of 1913.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Practitioners

Amendment Ordinance, 1919.

2.

Sub-section 2 of section 3 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance 1871 as enacted by section 3 of the Legal Practi-

tioners Amendment Ordinance, 1913 is hereby amended by substituting the words "Law Society" in lieu of the words "Incorporated Law Society of England".

les section

3.

E of No.1 f 1871.

Section 52 of the Legal Practitionere Ordinance, 1871, is hereby repealed and the following section is hereby substituted therefor:-

52.

The Court shall have power either to suspend

from practice for a definite period or to remove

and strike off the rolls of the Court the name of

any Barrister or Solicitor

(a) who is guilty of fraudulent or grossly

improper conduct in the discharge of his professional duty, or

(b) ho tenders or gives any gratification

or consente to the retention, out of any

fee or costs paid or payable to him for his services, of any gratification for procuring or having procured the employ- ment in any legal business of himself or

any other Barrister or Solicitor, or,

(c)