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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 186.-The following Bill is published for general information:-

Short title.

Substitution for Ordin-

ance No. 35

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 25-11.6.35.-1.]

An Ordinance to amend the Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1912, and to repeal the Crown Solicitors Amendment Ordinance, 1924.

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 Crown Solicitors Amendment Ordinance, 1935.

2. Section 2 of the Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1912, as amended by section 2 of the Crown Solicitors Amendment of 1912, s. 2, Ordinance, 1924, is repealed, and the following section is

substituted :-

as amended

by No. 9 of 1924, s. 2.

Appointment and qualifi- cations of Crown Solicitor

and Assistant Crown Solicitors.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 35 of

1912, s. 3 (1).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 35 of 1912, s. 4.

Repeal of

2. (1) The Governor shall have power to appoint any barrister, advocate, solicitor, law agent or proctor, or any member of the Colonial Legal Service, as Crown Solicitor or as an Assistant Crown Solicitor, and to appoint any person who has successfully passed the examinations required before admission of a barrister, advocate, solicitor, law agent or proctor, or any member of the Colonial Legal Service, as an Assistant Crown Solicitor.

(2) The number of Assistant Crown Solicitors shall not be limited.

3. Section 3 (1) of the Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1912, is amended-

(1) in paragraph (a) (iii) thereof by the substitution of the words "the Naval, Military or Air Authorities" for the words "the naval or military authorities'';

(2) by the addition of the following paragraph after paragraph (a) (iv) thereof :--

(v) with the consent of the Governor, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong.

4. Section 4 of the Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1912, is amended by the substitution of the words "the Naval, Military or Air Authorities or of His Majesty's Trade Com- missioner in Hong Kong" for the words "the naval or military authorities".

5. The Crown Solicitors Amendment Ordinance, 1924, Ordinance is repealed.

No. 9 of 1924.

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