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356 ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1856.


Admission of Practitioners in Supreme Court.


No. 13 of 1856.

Title. An Ordinance for the Admission of Candidates to the Rolls of Practitioners

in the Supreme Court, and for the Taxation of Costs.

[ 21st June, 1856. ]
Preamble. HEREAS by Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, any person soever who shall have served
W for a period of three years as an articled clerk to any solicitor, attorney, or
proctor, actually practising as such within this Colony, or who shall have been admitted
Ordinance No. 6 as a solicitor, attorney, or proctor, in any other British Colony, is qualified to be
of 1845.
approved, admitted, and enrolled by the Supreme Court to practise as a solicitor,
attorney, and proctor in the said Court, and that as fully and freely as if he had been
duly admitted as a solicitor, attorney, writer, or proctor in the several Courts of Great
Britain and Ireland respectively : And whereas no provision hath been made for the
examination of the said persons before such approval, admission , and enrolment : And
whereas it is expedient to make provision in that behalf, and also to extend the benefit
of the said recited provisions to other duly qualified persons who shall be so found by
the persons conducting such examination : And whereas it is also expedient that further
provision be made for the taxation of costs in all cases : Be it therefore enacted and
ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legisla
tive Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:

Qualifications of 1. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, any person who shall have
candidates.
actually exclusively and bona fide served for the period of three years or upwards
(whether computed from any time previous or from any time subsequent to the passing
of this Ordinance,) as Registrar, Deputy Registrar, clerk of the Supreme Court or of a
Judge thereof, clerk to the Attorney General, or interpreter to the said Court, or as a
clerk of the peace, or as an articled clerk to any actually practising attorney, solicitor,
or proctor of the said Court, or for any one portion of the said period in some one of
the said capacities, and for the residue thereof in some other or others of them, but
not in two or more of them at the same time, or who shall have been duly admitted as
an attorney, solicitor, or proctor in any other of Her Majesty's Colonies, shall be eligible
for admission to practise as an attorney, solicitor, and proctor of the said Supreme
Court, but only upon the conditions hereinafter specified .
The Court to 2. In the fourth term of the present and every succeeding year, the Attorney
appoint the
Attorney Gene General, a barrister or Registrar of the Supreme Court, of this Colony and two actually
rul, a barrister,
or Registrar of practising attornies of the said Court shall be by rule of Court appointed to be the
the Supreme
Court, with two
attornies, to be examiners for the then next ensuing twelve months, into the fitness of candidates of the
examiners.
classes described in section one for admission to practise as attornies, solicitors, and
proctors, under this Ordinance. And the said examiners, or any two of them of whom
the said Attorney General, barrister, or Registrar shall be one, shall, at such reasonable
times as the said Court shall appoint and notify, proceed to examine into the fitness of
the said candidates in that behalf, having due regard unto their character, conduct,
learning, and length and assiduity of service, and their other credentials, and conform