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). 1871.

A.D. 1871.]

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

[No. 1.

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articled clerks.

11. The Attorney General and any two or more fit persons, to be ap- Examiners of pointed from time to time as occasion may require by the Chief Justice in writing and under the Seal of the Court, shall be examiners for the purposes of this Ordinance, and they shall be entitled to receive by way of remuneration for their services such sum or sums out of the public revenue of the Colony as the Governor-in-Council may from time to time direct.

examinations

12. Until regulations for such preliminary and final examinations are Conduct of made as aforesaid and so far as the same may be incomplete and may default of omit to provide for any particular matters or things, the examiners may regulations. conform themselves, so far as may be practicable, to the regulations by which the examinations of persons intending to become bound under articles of clerkship, and of candidates for admission to practise as soli- citors, in England, are respectively for the time being governed and directed.

13.--(1.) The examiners shall certify the result of every such prelim- Certificate of inary or final examination to the Court within one week from the result of completion of the same or within such further time as the Court may

allow.

(2.) Every such certificate shall be in writing signed by the examin- ers 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 a solicitor and proctor of the Court, as the case may be, or that the examiners have not been able to come to any finding as to his fitness in that behalf.

14. If the examiners or the majority of them present at any such final examination find that the candidate is fit, he shall be admitted to practise accordingly ; but if they or the said majority find that he is not fit or come to no finding, the candidate may, on his petition to the Court, be heard in support of his qualification and claim to such admission; and if the Court grants the prayer of his petition, he shall be admitted ac- cordingly, notwithstanding any such finding or want of finding as afore- said.

examination.

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successful candidate, and right of appeal of un- candidate, at tion.

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mission after certificate,

15. Except in any case where the Court, on special application, gives Time of ad- leave to the contrary, no admission shall be granted, whether on such certificate or on such petition as aforesaid, after the expiration of one etc. month from the date of the return of the certificate or the date of the

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