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Admission of barristers and attornies.
Fit persons to be admitted to practise for three months in case of necessity.
Sheriff of Hongkong to execute writs and process against sheriff.
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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1845.
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officers in the said Colony; and that all other officers, shall be removable from their several offices in the said Court by the Governor, or Acting Governor for the time being, upon reasonable cause.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court is hereby authorized and empowered to approve, admit, and enrol such persons as shall have been admitted barristers or advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as barristers; and such persons as shall have been admitted as solicitors, attornies, or writers in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, or who shall have served for a period of three years as an articled clerk to any solicitor, attorney, or proctor, actually practising as such within the Colony of Hongkong, or shall have been admitted as solicitors, attornies, or proctors, in any other of Her Majesty's British colonies, to practise as solicitors, attornies, and proctors in the said Court; subject nevertheless to be removed and struck off from the rolls of the said Court, upon reasonable cause. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1871.]
11. Provided always, and be it further enacted and ordained, that in case there shall not be a sufficient number of barristers, solicitors, attornies, and proctors within the said Colony, competent and willing to appear and act for the suitors of the said Supreme Court, it shall be lawful for the said Court, and the said Court is hereby authorized, to admit temporarily so many other fit and proper persons to appear and act as barristers, solicitors, attornies, and proctors, as may be necessary, according to such rules and regulations as the said Court shall, for that purpose, make and establish: Provided that the persons so admitted shall be admitted for a period of three months only, and shall not be readmitted without obvious necessity.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff of Hongkong for the time being shall, by himself or his sufficient deputy, (to be by him appointed, and duly authorized under his hand and seal, and for whom he shall be responsible during his continuing in such office,) execute, and the said sheriff and his said deputy is and are hereby authorized to execute all writs, summonses, rules, orders, warrants, commands, and processes of the said Supreme Court, (other than such as shall be issued under the summary jurisdiction of the said Court, as hereinafter provided by Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) and make a return of the same, together with the manner of the execution thereof, to the said Court, and to receive and detain in prison all such persons as shall be committed to the custody of such sheriff by the said Court. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 1 of 1873.]
13. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever the said Supreme Court shall direct or award any process against the said sheriff, or award any process in any cause, matter, or thing wherein the said sheriff, on account of his being related to the parties, or any of them, or by reason of any good cause of challenge which would be allowed against any sheriff in England, cannot or ought not by law to execute the same, in every such case the said Court shall name and appoint some other fit person
122
Admission of barristers and attornies.
Fit persons to be admitted to practise for
three months in case of necessity.
Sheriff of Hong-
kong to execute writs and pro-
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Process against sheriff.
A
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1845.
Supreme Court.
officers in the said Colony; and that all other officers, shall be removable from their several offices in the said Court by the Governor, or Acting Governor for the time being, upon reasonable cause.
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10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court is hereby authorized and empowered to approve, admit, and enrol such persons as shall have been admitted barristers or advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as bar- risters; and such persons as shall have been admitted as solicitors, attornies, or writers in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, or who shall have served for a period of three years as an articled clerk to any solicitor, attorney, or proctor, actually practising as such within the Colony of Hongkong, or shall have been admitted as solicitors, attornies, or proc- tors, in any other of Her Majesty's British colonies, to practise as solicitors, attornies, and proctors in the said Court; subject nevertheless to be removed and struck off from the rolls of the said Court, upon reasonable cause. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1871.]
11. Provided always, and be it further enacted and ordained, that in case there shall not be a sufficient number of barristers, solicitors, attornies, and proctors within the said Colony, competent and willing to appear and act for the suitors of the said Supreme Court, it shall be lawful for the said Court, and the said Court is hereby authorized, to admit temporarily so many other fit and proper persons to appear and act as barristers, solicitors, attornies, and proctors, as may be necessary, according to such rules and regulations as the said Court shall, for that purpose, make and establish: Provided that the persons so admitted shall be admitted for a period of three months only, and shall not be readmitted without obvious necessity.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff of Hongkong for the time being shall, by himself or his sufficient deputy, (to be by him appointed, and duly authorized under his hand and seal, and for whom he shall be responsible during his continuing in such office,) execute, and the said sheriff and his said deputy is and are hereby authorized to execute all writs, summonses, rules, orders, warrants, com. mands, and processes of the said Supreme Court, (other than such as shall be issued under the summary jurisdiction of the said Court, as hereinafter provided by Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) and make a return of the same, together with the manner of the execu- tion thereof, to the said Court, and to receive and detain in prison all such persons as shall be committed to the custody of such sheriff by the said Court. [Repealed by Or- dinance No. 1 of 1873.]
13. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever the said Supreme Court shall direct or award any process against the said sheriff, or award any process in any cause, matter, or thing wherein the said sheriff, on account of his being related to the parties, or any of them, or by reason of any good cause of challenge which would be allowed against any sheriff in England, cannot or ought not by law to execute the same, in every such case the said Court shall name and appoint some other fit person
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