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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 15, 1931.

HONG KONG.

No. 13 OF 1931.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

15th May, 1931.

An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners

Ordinance, 1871.

[15th May, 1931.]

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- Short title. tioners Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

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

"and such persous 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."

No. 1 of

1871, s. 21.

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

of Ordinance No. 1 of 1871, s. 2

4. Section 22 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, Amendment 1871, is amended :-

of Ordinance No. 1 of

() in the first line of paragraph (b) by the deletion 1871, s. 22.

of the word "writer" and by the substitution therefor of the words "law agent" ;

() 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";

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(i) in the ninth line of paragraph (b) by the delction of the words or writers" and by the substitu-

tion therefor of the words " law agents or proctors";

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(iv) in the tenth line of paragraph (7) by the deletion

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

() 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, Amendment 1871, is amended by the deletion of the word "solicitor" of Ordinance in the seventh line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "attorney, solicitor, law agent or proctor”,

No. 1 of 1871, s. 23.

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