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Objects and Reasons.
1. Under section 21 of the principal Ordinance the court is empowered to approve, admit, and enrol such persons as have been admitted as attorneys, solicitors, or writers in one of the courts of London, Dublin or Edin- burgh, or as proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, to practise as solicitors in the court, and the expression writer is to be deemed to include "law agents as defined in section 1 of the Act, 36 and 37 Vietoria, chapter 63.
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2. It is felt that the limitation to named cities is too restrictive. The rights and duties of Law Agents in Scotland are regulated by the Law Agents (Scotland) Acts, 1873 and 1891. The term "Law Agent" (equiva- lent to solicitor in England) is defined by the former Act as
"Law Agents, shall include Writers to the Signet, Solicitors in the Supreme Court, Procurators in any Sheriff Court, and every person entitled to practise as an Agent in a court of Law in Scotland ".
3. The Secretary of State, in a recent circular Despatch (dated the 8th January, 1931) forwarding an extract from a memorandum of the Council of the Scottish Law Agents Society regarding admission to practise in the Colonies, states that he is sure that the intention is that the same privilege should be conferred upon solicitors in Scotland as upon solicitors in England and that therefore the reference, so far as Scotland is concerned, should be "law agents admitted to practise in Scotland" and nothing
more.
4. Section 21 of the principal Ordinance is amended accordingly and sections 22 and 23 are made uniform therewith.
5. Sections 2, 22 and 23A of the principal Ordinance are also amended so as to give The Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong its correct title.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
April, 1931.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.
No. S. 135.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hong Kong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Restriction in Force.
Authority.
Plague.
Bangkok.
Quarantine and/or Disinfection at the discre-
tion of the Health Officer.
Notification No. 51 of
29th January, 1931.
10th April, 1931.
E. R. HALLIFAX,
Colonial Secretary.
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