374 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH AUGUST, 1870.
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 Person now prac- not necessary tising as a Public Notary within the Colony shall be allowed One Calendar Month from the Date of the Passing of this Ordinance within which to become registered, and shall during such Period be exempt from the Operation of this Section and of Section XXVIII.
and Proctors.
VI. The Supreme Court shall have Power to approve, admit Admission of and enrol such Persons as shall have been admitted Barristers or Barristers, [No. 6 of 1845 Advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as Barristers; Attornies,
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 respectively in the Supreme Court.
73 s. 3.]
[No. 6 of 1845
s. 10.]
VII. The Supreme Court shall also have Power to admit, enrol Admission of as an Attorney and Proctor of the Supreme Court, any Person, Articled [0-& 7 Vie., c. being a British Subject, who shall have actually, exclusively, and Clerks.
bona fide served for the Period of Five Years as an Articled Clerk to any Attorney actually practising within the Colony, or Part of such Period of Five Years with such Attorney and the remainder with any Attorney actually practising in Great Britain or Ireland, and who shall have been examined and sworn in the Manner bereinafter directed and otherwise shall have fulfilled all the Con- ditions of this Ordinance in Relation to such Admission.
[No. 13 of 1850
s. 1.]
[6 & 7 Vic,, c.
VIII. 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 or as Advocates and Proctors respectively in all practise in Vic., c. 45 s. 15.]
the Courts of the Colony. [No. 7 of 1862
all the Courts.
IX. Every Person who shall desire to be admitted under Section Certificate of ss. 17 & 18.] VI to practise in the Supreme Court in any of the Capacities therein Call or Admis
mentioned shall deposit with the Registrar his Certificate of Call sion to be to the Bar or of his Admission as an Attorney, Writer, or Proctor, Registrar and deposited with and shall file in the said Court an Affidavit of Identity in such Athdavit of Forin 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.
[6 & 7 Vie., c. 73 s. 8.]
[6 & 7 Vic., c. 73. s. 8.]
c. 127 s. 7.]
Notaries.
•
X. 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 XXVI, be entitled to be registered therein.
Execution of
XI. The Articles whereby any Person shall become bound to Formalities to serve as a Clerk to any Attorney, and every Assignment thereof, be observed shall be produced to the Registrar within One Month after the "pon the same shall have been executed and the Person so bound as aforesaid Articles or of shall within the said Period make and duly swear or cause to be any Assign- made and duly sworn an Affidavit of such Attorney having been ment thereof. 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 executed and such Person shall also, within the said Period, file the said Affidavit in the Supreme Court.
to the Enrol-
XII. 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 [23 & 24 Vie, Payment of the Fees specified in Section XXVI, the Registrar ment, &c., of
shall enrol and register the Articles or Assignment and shall Articles. 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.
[6 & 7 Vic., c.
73 s. 9.]
c. 127 s. 7,]
formed after
XIII. The Formalities prescribed by the Two last preceding The Formali- Sections may be observed and performed after the Expiration of ties prescribed [23 & 24 Vic; the Period of One Month therein specified by Leave of the Chief may be per-
Justice, but the Service of the Clerk so bound as aforesaid shall be the Expiration reckoned to commence and be computed from the Date when such of the Period Leave shall have been granted or in the Case of an Assignment specified, by his Service shall be suspended from the Expiration of the said Leave of the Period of One Month hereinbefore specified until the Date when such Leave shall be granted, unless the Chief Justice shall other- wise order.
[23 & 24 Vic.,
Chief Justice.
XIV. No Person bound by Articles of Clerkship to any Attorney Articled Clerks c. 172 s. 103 as aforesaid, shall, during the Term of Service mentioned in not to be
such Articles, hold any Office or engage in any Employment engaged
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