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THE COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT.

6. THE COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT, 1900.

Order in Council, 4th November, 1901.

At the Court at St. James, the 4th day of November, 1901.

PRESENT:

The King's Most Excellent Majesty.

WHEREAS by the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900, it is enacted that where as respects a Superior Court in a British Possession His Majesty the King in Council is satisfied on the report of a Secretary of State,-

(a) that the regulations respecting the admission of persons to be solicitors of that Superior Court are such as to secure that those solicitors possess proper qualifications and competency; and

(b) that by the law of the British Possession the solicitors of the Su- preme Court will be admitted to be solicitors of the Superior Court in the Possession on terms as favourable as those on which it is proposed to admit solicitors of that Superior Court in pursuance of the said Act to be solicitors of the Supreme Court;

His Majesty in Council may order that the said Act shall apply and the same shall accordingly apply to the said Superior Court and British Possession, subject to any exceptions, conditions, and modifications speci- fied in the Order :

AND WHEREAS by the said Act it is further provided that His Majesty in Council by the same or any subsequent Order may as respects the Court and British Possession named in the Order provide for all matters author- ised by the said Act to be prescribed, and for all matters appearing to His Majesty to be necessary or proper for giving effect to the Order and to the said Act and that an Order in Council applying the Act to a Court in a British Possession may provide that solicitors of that Court may be admitted by virtue of the said Act to be solicitors in any part of the United Kingdom, namely, England, Scotland or Ireland, or in two or one of those parts only:

AND WHEREAS application has been made by the Governor of the Colony of Hongkong that the said Act may be applied to that Colony :

AND WHEREAS His Majesty in Council on the report of the Secretary of State for the Colonies is satisfied that the regulations respecting the admission of persons to be solicitors of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hongkong are such as to secure that those solicitors possess proper qualifications and competency and that by the law of the Colony of Hongkong the solicitors of the Supreme Court in England and Ireland. and Law Agents in Scotland will be admitted to be solicitors of the Su- preme Court of the Colony of Hongkong on terms as favourable as those on which it is proposed to admit solicitors of that Court in pursuance of the said Act to be solicitors of the Supreme Court:

NOW THEREFORE His Majesty in pursuance of the said recited Act and in execution of the powers thereby in His Majesty vested is pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to Order and it is hereby Or- dered that the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900, shall apply to the Supreme

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