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Order in Council, 1901.

5 & 6 Will 4 c. 62.

THE COLONIAL SOLICITORS ACT.

(11) The application for admission to be a Law Agent in Scotland shall be made by Petition to the Court of Session, and if the Court shall be satisfied that the applicant has complied with the requirements of this Order they shall ordain him to undergo the examination in law prescribed for the time being for applicants for admission as Law Agents in Scotland under the Law Agents (Scotland) Act, 1873, and Acts amending the same, and on the Court being satisfied that the applicant has duly passed such examination, then and not otherwise the Court shall cause him to be admitted a Law Agent and his name to be enrolled as such, which admis- sion shall be in writing and signed by a Judge of the Court, and shall be stamped with the stamps required by clause 8 of this Order.

The rules in force in Scotland for the time being as to the presentation of petitions for admission as Law Agent and the proceedings under the same shall be applicable to all applications under this Order for admis- sion as a Law Agent in Scotland.

SCHEDULE A.

In the Matter of the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900,

I,

In the Matter of

as follows:-

and

in the Colony of Hongkong, do solemnly and sincerely declare

day of

1. I am a male British subject.

2. I was on the

admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hongkong, and I have been in practice before such Court for not less than three years. My name remains on the Roll of the said Court, and I have not at any time been suspended from practice by the Court or by any Judge thereof, nor are any proceedings pending to strike my name off the said Roll or to suspend me from practice. I beg to refer to the Certificate of

marked "A" now produced

to me in proof of the statements in this paragraph.

3. I have not been bankrupt or insolvent, nor have I made a composition or arrange- ment with my creditors. (If this is not the case, state the facts with dates, and show that a complete discharge has been obtained.)

4. The document now produced and shown to me and marked with the letter "B" is my original certificate of admission in the said Court and the documents now produced and shown to me and marked respectively with the letters "C" and D" are respectively certificates of character and as to my fitness to be admitted ["a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England or Ireland" or "a Law Agent in Scotland," as the case may be] signed respectively by

one of the Judges of the said Court (if not a Judge state

of

and

of

his rank), and by two practising solicitors of the said Court of at least five years standing.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaratious Act, 1835.

SCHEDULE B.

I, [name and style of Judge] do hereby certify that the amount of stamps paid on Articles of Clerkship when [name and style of Applicant] was articled was the sum of £ on admission when he was admitted to practise the sum of £

and

[To be signed and attested.]