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THE HONGKONG governmentT GAZETTE, 3rd JUNE, 1871.

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HONGKONG.

ANNO TRICESIMO QUARTO

VICTORIE REGINE.

HENRY WASE WHITFEILD, Major-General, and Lieutenant-Governor. No. 3 OF 1871.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate and amend the Laws of the Colony relating to the Admission and Enrolment by the Supreme Court of Barristers, Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors, and to the Examination of Articled Clerks, and to provide for the Registration of Public Notaries.

[29th May, 1871.]

Title.

HEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Laws Preamble.

WHEREAS i

by the Supreme Court of Barristers, Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors, and to the Examination of Articled Clerks, and to provide for the Registration of Public Notaries: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. In the Interpretation of this Ordinance, the Expression Interpreta- "Supreme Court" shall mean the Supreme Court of Hongkong; tion Clause. the Term "Registrar" shall mean the Registrar of the Supreme Court; the Term "Attorney" shall include "Solicitor;" and the Term “Articles” shall include any Contract in writing whereby any Person shall be bound to serve as a Clerk to an Attorney.

II. Section X of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, and Ordinance No. Repealing 13 of 1856, except Sections XI and XII, are hereby repealed, Clause. subject nevertheless to the Provisions of the Section next herein- after following.

III. The Repeal of Section X of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, and Saving of so much of Ordinance No. 13 of 1856 as in the last preceding Clause. Section mentioned, shall not affect the Rights of any Persons who at the Time of the Passing of this Ordinance bad served or were in Course of serving any of the Offices specified in Section I of Ordinance No. 13 of 1856, or under any Articles, entered into before the Passing of this Ordinance, but as regards such Persons the Whole of the said last mentioned Ordinance, and Section X of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, shall for the Purpose of their Admission as Attornies and Proctors of the Supreme Court, be deemed to remain in Force as if this Ordinance had not been passed, except that the Examination of such Persons for their Admission as afore- said, shall be conducted by the Examiners appointed under this Ordinance.

torney, &c.,

IV. From and after the Passing of this Ordinance, no Person, No Person to save as aforesaid, shall practise within the Colony as a Barrister, practise as a (No. 13 of 1856 Attorney, or Proctor, unless he shall have been approved, admitted Barrister, At-

and enrolled by the Supreme Court; or as a Public Notary, without unless he shall have been registered, under the Provisions of this previous Ordinance Provided always that it shall not be necessary for Admission, &c. any Person already admitted and enrolled by the Supreme Court to practise as a Barrister, Attorney, or Proctor, to be re-admitted Re-admission or re-enrolled under this Ordinance, and every l'erson now prac- tising as a Public Notary within the Colony shall be allowed One Calendar Month from the Date of the Passing of this Ordinance, or, if absent, from the Date of his Return to the Colony, within which to become registered, and shall during such Period be exempt from the Operation of this Section and of Section XXIX.

not necessary.

V. The Supreme Court shall have Power to approve, admit Admission of and enrol such Persons as shall have been admitted Barristers or Barristers,

Attornies, [No. 6 of 1845 Advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as Barristers, and Proctors.

s. 10.] and such Persons as shall have been admitted as Attornies, or Writers in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as Proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England,

to practise as Attornies and Proctors, in the Supreme Court.

VI. The Supreme Court shall have Power to admit, and enrol Admission of as an Attorney and Proctor of the Supreme Court, any Person, Articled being a British Subject, who shall have actually, exclusively, and

[6 & 7 Vic., c. bona fide served for the Period of Five Years as a Clerk under

73 s. 3.] [No. 6 of 1845

Articles to any Attorney actually practising within the Colony, or s. 10.] Part of such Period of Five Years under Articles to such Attorney

Clerks.

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