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A278

Ord. No. 52/80

Short title.

Amendments. Schedule.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT)

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 52/80

A279

Amendment

L.S.

HONG KONG

No. 52 OF 1980

I assent.

JACK CATER,

Acting Governor.

24 July 1980.

An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners Ordinance.

[1 May 1980]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Practitioners (Amend- ment) Ordinance 1980, and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 May 1980.

2. The enactment specified in the second column of the Schedule are amended in the manner specified in relation thereto in the third column of the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Amendment

[s. 2.]

Item

Enactment

4.

Section 10 is amended-

(a) in subsection (3) by deleting "Committee” and substituting therefor the following-

"Council";

(b) in subsection (4) by deleting "Committee” in the second place where it appears and substituting therefor the following-

"Council".

5. Sections 17, 19(1) and (3), 20(4), 21(1), 22, 26A(1) and (2), 26B(1), 26C(1)a), 26D and 73(1), (1)(b)(iii) and (viii), (1)e), (1Xf) and (2) are amended by deleting "Committee" wherever it appears and substituting therefor the following- "Council".

6. Section 74(1) is amended by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting therefor the following-

"(a) a judge of the High Court appointed by

the Chief Justice as Chairman;".

7. The Schedule is amended by deleting "Committee" where it appears in-

(a) paragraph 1, thrice;

(b) paragraph 2(b), thrice;

Item

Enactment

(Cap. 159.)

1.

Legal Practi-

1.

tioners Ordinance

Section 2 is amended-

(a) by deleting the definition of "Com- mittee" and substituting the following immediately below the definition of "Costs Committee”-

""Council" means the council of the Society elected in accordance with the provisions of its articles of association;";

(b) in the definition of "Disciplinary Com- mittee" by deleting "Committee" in the third place where it appears and sub- stituting therefor the following- “Council".

2.

Section 6(1), (2), (3), (6), (10) and (11)(a) and section 8 are amended by deleting "Com- mittee" wherever it appears and substituting therefor the following-

"Council".

3. Section 9(2) is amended by deleting "Committee" in the first and second places where it appears and substituting therefor the following—

"Council".

(c) paragraph 3, once;

(d) paragraph 4, once;

(e) paragraph 5, twice;

(f) paragraph 6, thrice; (g) paragraph 7, once;

(h) paragraph—

(i) 8(1), once, (ii) 8(2), once;

(i) paragraph 9, once;

(j) paragraph 10, twice;

(k) paragraph 11, once;

(1) paragraph 12, thrice;

(m) paragraph-

(i) 13(1), thrice,

(ii) 13(2), thrice;

(n) paragraph 14(b), once;

(o) paragraph 15, twice;

(p) paragraph 16, once,

and substituting therefor the following-

"Council".