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Short title.

A BILL

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An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the right

of officers of the legal departments of Government to practise

as barristers and solicitors for certain purposes and to recover

fees and costs in respect of work done and generally to regulate

the status rights privileges and duties of such officers.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :

1949.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Officers Ordinance,

Interpretation.

Ordinance

No. 37 of 1948.

2.

In this Ordinance

"duly admitted" in the case of a barrister means duly

admitted and enrolled as a barrister under section 26 of the Legal

Practitioners urdinance, 1948, and, in the case of a solicitor means

duly admitted and enrolled as a solicitor under section 25 of the

said Ordinance;

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"legal officer" means an officer appointed to the Colonial

Eurifices

Lei Legal Service as a legal officer bryan officer/discharging the duties

of any of the offices designated in the Schedule hereto;

"public body includes any executive, legislative,

municipal or urban council, any Government department or undertaking,

any local or public authority or undertaking, any board, commission,

committee or other body whether paid or unpaid appointed by the

Governor or Government of Hong Kong or which has power to act under

or for the purposes of any enactment in force in the Colony;

"public servant" means in addition to the meaning assigned

to it by the Interpretation ordinance, 1911, any employee or member

of a public body as defined in this Ordinance, whether temporary or

permanent and whether paid or unpaid;

*rights" includes powers privileges and discretions;

"tribunal" includes any council, committee, arbitrator,

body or person before which a barrister or solicitor may lawfully

appear.