Legal Practitioners.
"registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court; "solicitor" means a solicitor of the Supreme Court; "unqualified person" means a person who has not been duly approved, admitted and enrolled as a solicitor, under this or any previous Ordinance or who, being such a solicitor, is at any material time suspended from practice or whose name has been struck off or removed from the roll and has not been restored.
PART I.
ADMISSION and REGISTRATION OF LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
Service and examination of articled clerks.
[CAP. 159
for
examination.
Vict. c. 127,
3. (1) The Chief Justice may make regulations, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, for the preliminary examination of persons intending to become bound under articles of clerkship to solicitors in order to ascertain the fitness of such persons to become so bound, having regard to their general learning and education and to their character and conduct.
Schedule.
(2) No such preliminary examination shall be necessary in the case of any person who has passed the matriculation or other corresponding examination of any university specified in the Second Schedule, or who has passed an examination which would in England exempt him from passing the preliminary examination of the Law Society there or which would permit him to enter the University of Hong Kong without further examinations.
(3) The Chief Justice may in special circumstances exempt any person from the preliminary examination or any part thereof either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he may think fit.
(4) Articles of clerkship shall be null and void unless the intended articled clerk has passed one of the examinations referred to in subsection (2) or has passed the preliminary examination referred to in subsection (1) or has obtained from the Chief Justice an order exempting him from such preliminary examination.
(5) The examiners shall certify the result of every such preliminary examination to the court within one week from the completion of the same or within such further time as
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Legal Practitioners.
"registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court; "solicitor" means a solicitor of the Supreme Court; "unqualified person" means a person who has not been duly approved, admitted and enrolled as a solicitor, under this or any previous Ordinance or who, being such a solicitor, is at any material time suspended from practice or whose name has been struck off or removed from the roll and has not been restored.
PART I.
ADMISSION and RegistrATION OF LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
Service and examination of articled clerks.
[CAP. 159
for
examination.
Vict. c. 127,
3. (1) The Chief Justice may make regulations, subject Regulations to the approval of the Legislative Council, for the preliminary preliminary examination of persons intending to become bound under 23 and 24 articles of clerkship to solicitors in order to ascertain the s. 8. fitness of such persons to become so bound, having regard to their general learning and education and to their character and conduct.
Schedule.
(2) No such preliminary examination shall be necessary. in the case of any person who has passed the matriculation or other corresponding examination of any university specified in the Second Schedule, or who has passed an Second examination which would in England exempt him from passing the preliminary examination of the Law Society there or which would permit him to enter the University of Hong Kong without further examinations.
(3) The Chief Justice may in special circumstances exempt any person from the preliminary examination or any part thereof either unconditionally or subject to such con- ditions as he may think fit.
(4) Articles of clerkship shall be null and void unless the intended articled clerk has passed one of the examinations referred to in subsection (2) or has passed the preliminary examination referred to in subsection (1) or has obtained from the Chief Justice an order exempting him from such pre- liminary examination.
(5) The examiners shall certify the result of every such preliminary examination to the court within one week from the completion of the same or within such further time as
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