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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TMп OCTOBER, 1870.

[No. 13 of

1856 s. 2.]

[No. 16 of 1856

s. 4.]

[No. 13 of1850

8. 5.]

[No. 13 of 1856

s. 6.]

[Reg. Gen. H.

as aforesaid, for Admission to Practice as Attornies, and Proctors in the Supreme Court.

XVIII. Until such Regulations as aforesaid for the Final Exa- How far minations of Candidates shall be made and so far as the same Regulations

England may be followed.

may be incomplete and may omit to provide for any particular in Force in Matters or Things, the Examiners may conform themselves so far as may be practicable to the Regulations by which the Exami- nations of Candidates for Admission to Practice as Attornies in England are governed and directed.

XIX. The Examiners shall certify the Result of every such Certificate of Preliminary or Final Examination to the Supreme Court within Examiners. One Week from the Completion of the same, or within such fur- ther Time as the Court shall allow; and every such Certificate shall be in Writing signed by the Examiners, or any Two or more of them, of whom the Attorney General shall be one, and shall state to the Effect, that the Examiners or the Majority of them, find that the Candidate is or is not fit to become bound under Articles as aforesaid, or to act as an Attorney, and Proctor of the Supreme Court, (as the Case may be), or that the Examiners have not been able to coine to any Finding, as to his Fitness in that Behalf.

XX. If the Examiners, or the Majority of them present at any The Candidate such Final Examination, find that the Candidate is fit, he shall be if unsucessful admitted to practise accordingly; but if they, or the said Majority, the Court.

may appeal to find that he is not fit, or come to no Finding, he may, on his Petition to the Supreme Court, be heard in Support of his Qualification and Clain to such Admission; and if the said Court shall grant the Prayer of such his Petition, he shall be admitted accordingly, notwithstanding any such Finding or Want of Finding as aforesaid.

XXI. Except in Cases where the Court on Special Application Certificate or shall give Leave to the contrary, no Admission shall be granted Order to be in whether upon such Certiñcate or such Petition as aforesaid, after Force for One

Mouth only the Expiration of One Month from the Date of the Return of the

except by Certificate or (as the Case may be) the Date of the Order made Leave of the upon the Petition.

Court.

XXII. Every Candidate for Admission as an Attorney, and Notice of T. 1859 No. Proctor under Section VII, shall give One Month's written Intention to *5.3

Notice to the Registrar, of his Intention to apply for Examination apply for and Adinission, and shall likewise cause a like Notice to be inserted Examination. Three Times in the Gazette and in a Public Newspaper of the Colony.

[Reg. Gen. H. T. 1853 No.

6.]

[6 & 7 Vic., c. 73. s. 14.]

[23 & 24 Vic.,

XXIII. Every Candidate for Ad.nission as an Attorney, and Renewal of · Proctor under Section VII, who shall have given such Notice Notice. of his Intention to apply for Examination and Admission as aforesaid, and who shall not have attended to be examined, or not have passed the Examination, or not have been admitted, may, within Six Months after such Notice given, renew the Notice for Examination and Admission, and so from Time to Time as often as he shall think proper: Provided always that if any such Person shall have been prevented from attending to be examined as aforesaid by Reason of Sickness or other unavoidable Cause, it shall be lawful for the Examiners to permit such Notice to be renewed within the said Period of Six Months.

due Service,

XXIV. Every Person who shall have been bound under Articles Affidavit of as aforesaid shall before he can be admitted and enrolled

as an c. 127 s. 10.1 Attorney under Section VII prove by an Affidavit of himself or of the Attorney to whom he was bound as aforesaid to be duly made and filed in the Supreme Court, that he has actually and really served and been employed by such practising Attorney during the whole Time and in the Manner required by this Ordinance, and that he has not held any Office or engaged for any Employment contrary to the Provisions of Section XIV, and the said Affidavit shall be in such Form as shall be approved of by the Chief Justice.

[6 & 7 Vic., c. 73 s. 19.] [No. 13 of 1856

*. 9.]

XXV. Every Person who shall apply to be admitted and Oaths to be enrolled under Section VII as an Attorney, and Proctor of the taken. Supreme Court, shall, before Admission and Enrolment, subscribe the Oath or Declaration and Affirmation of Allegiance in the Form prescribed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1869, and also the Oath or Declaration and Affirmation following:-

"I, A. B., do swear, [or solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm] that I will truly and honestly demean myself in the Practice of an Attorney, Solicitor, and Proctor according to the best of my Knowledge and Ability," [and in the Case of an Oath,] "So help me God."

And the said Oaths or Declarations and Affirmations shall be tendered by the Chief Justice.

XXVI. The following Fees shall be paid to the Registrar for Fees payable his own Use under this Ordinance :-

under this

On the Filing of the Affidavit required by Section XI, Ordinance.

$2.

On the Enrolment and Registration of Articles or of any

Assignment of Articles under Section XII, $5.

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