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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD JUNE, 1871.

[No. 13of 1856 and the other Part under Articles to any Attorney actually practising

9. 1.]

[See 23 & 24 Vic., c. 127

s. 4.]

[6 & 7 Vic., c. 73 s. 5.]

in Great Britain or Ireland, and who shall have been examined and sworn in the Manner hereinafter directed and otherwise shall have fulfilled all the Conditions of this Ordinance in relation to such Admission.

Articles re-

VII. Any Person being a British Subject, who either before Period of or after the Passing of this Ordinance, shall for the Terin of Five Service under Years have been a bond fide Clork to an Attorney practising duced to within the Colony and during that Terin shall have been bona fide Years in engaged in the Transaction and Performance, under the Direction certain Cases. and Superintendence of such Attorney, of such Matters of Business as are usually transacted and performed by Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors, and who shall produce to the Chief Justice satis- factory Evidence that he has faithfully, honestly and diligently served as such Clerk, shall be exempted from any Preliminary Examination before becoming bound under Articles to any At- torney practising within the Colony, and it shall be lawful for the Supreme Court to admit and enrol any such Person as an Attorney and Proctor of the Supreme Court after a bona fide Service of Three Years under such Articles: Provided always that snch Ferson be otherwise entitled to be admitted and enrolled according to the Provisions of this Ordinance, and for such Pur- pose, all the Provisions of this Ordinance in relation to the Admis- sion and Enrolmeat of Articled Clerks as Attornies and Proctors under Section VI shall be read as if the Words "Three Years" were inserted therein in the Place of the Words "Five Years" whenever they occur in relation to the Period of Service under Articles.

VIII. In Case any Attorney to whom any Clerk is articled, shall In Case of before the Expiration of the Term become Bankrupt, or execute a Bankruptcy, Trust Deed for the Benefit of his Creditors under Section CLXIII &c., Court or within Section CLXV of "The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1864," Articles.

,, may assign or be imprisoned for Debt, and remain in Prison for the Space of Twenty-one Days, it shall be lawful for the Supreme Court upon the Application of such Clerk to order and direct the Articles to be discharged or assigned to such Person, upon such Terms and in such Marner, as the said Court shall think fit.

all the Courts.

[6 & 7 Vic., c.

IX. It shall be lawful for all Persons admitted and enrolled Barristers and 37 s. 27.1 by the Supreme Court to practise as Barristers or as Attornies to Attornies may [See 30 & 31

practise as such respectively in all the Courts of the Colony. practise in Vic., c. 45 s. 15.] X. Every Person who shall desire to be admitted under Section Certificate of [No. 7 of 1862 V to practise in the Supreme Court in any of the Capacities therein Call or Admis

ss. 17 & 18.] mentioned hall deposit with the Registrar his Certificate of Call sion to be

to the Bat or of his Admission as an Attorney, Writer, or Proctor, deposited with and shall file in the said Court an Affidavit of Identity in such Affidavit of Form as may be approved by the Chief Justice: Provided always Identity to that the Chief Justice may, on special Grounds and upon such be filed. Conditions as he may think proper, exempt any such Person from complying with the Formalities prescribed by this Section, either absolutely or for any specified Period.

[6 & 7 Vic., c. 79 s. 8.]

[0 & 7 Vic., c. 73. s. 8.]

[23 & 24 Vic.,

Registrar and

Notaries.

XI. The Registrar shall keep a special Book for the Registra- Register of tion of Public Notaries, and every Public Notary, who shall produce Public his Notarial Faculty, and shall file in the Supreme Court an Affidavit of Identity in such Form as may be approved by the Chief Justice, shall on Payment of the Fee specified in Sec- tion XXVIII, be entitled to be registered therein.

Execution of

XII. The Articles whereby any Person shall become bound to Formalities to serve as a Clerk to any Attorney practising within the Colony, be observed and every Assignment thereof, shall be produced to the Registrar upon the within One Month after the same shall have been executed and Articles or of the Person so bound as aforesaid shall within the said Period.

any Assign- make and duly swear or cause to be made and duly sworn an ment thereof. Affidavit of such Attorney having been duly admitted, and also of the actual Execution of the Articles or Assignment by the Parties thereto; and in every such Affidavit shall be specified the Names of such Attorney and of the Person so bound and the Day on which such Articles or Assignment were actually exe- cuted and such Person shall also, within the said Period, file the said Affidavit in the Supreme Court.

Articles,

XIII. Within the said Period of One Month and upon the Filing Duties of the of the Affidavit required by the last preceding Section and the Registrar as c. 127 s. 7.1 Payment of the Fees specified in Section XXVIII the Registrar to the Enrol- shall enrol and register the Articles or Assignment and shall men &c., of make and sign a Memorandum thereon and on the Affidavit, of the Day on which the same was filed and the Registrar shall likewise enter the Names of the Parties to and the Dates of such Articles or Assignment and the Term of Service in a Book to be kept for that Purpose and shall mark such Articles or Assignment as having been so entered with the Date thereof and the said Book shall be open to public Inspection during Office Hours without Fee or Reward.