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Draft Bill.

No. S. 134.-The following bill is published for general information:--

CSO

[No. 4:-7.4.31.—2.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1871, s. 21.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1871, s. 2

Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1871, s. 22.

Amendment

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners

Ordinance, 1871.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Legal Practi- tioners Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2. Section 21 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871, is amended by the deletion of the last seven lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words :--

"and such persons as have been admitted to practise as attorneys, solicitors, law agents or proctors in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as solicitors in the court."

3. Section 2 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871 is amended by the repeal of paragraph (e).

4. Section 22 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1971, is amended :—

() in the first line of paragraph (b) by the deletion of the word "writer and by the substitution therefor of the words "law agent";

(i) in the third line of paragraph (b) by the deletion of the words "Hongkong Law Society" and by the substitution therefor of the words "Incor- porated Law Society of Hong Kong";

(i) in the ninth line of paragraph (6) by the deletion of the words "or writers" and by the substitu- tion therefor of the words law agents or proctors";

(iv) in the tenth line of paragraph (b) by the deletion

of the words " at London, Dublin or Edinburgh and by the substitution therefor of the words "in Great Britain or Ireland";

(v) in the sixth line of the proviso to paragraph (b) by the deletion of the word "writer" and by the substitution therefor of the words "law agent".

5. Section 23 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, of Ordinance 1871, is amended by the deletion of the word "solicitor" No. 1 of

in the seventh line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "attorney, solicitor, law agent or proctor".

1871, s. 23.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1871, s.

23A.

6. Section 23A of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871, is amended by the deletion of the words "Hongkong Law Society in the first line and by the substitution therefor of the words "Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong "