Hong Kong Ordinances

LEGAL OFFICERS ORDINANCE - SECT 3

Rights and privileges of a legal officer

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Any legal officer shall in respect of any of the matters mentioned in
section 4(1) have all the rights of barristers and solicitors duly admitted
under the provisions of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance ( Cap 159).

(2) For the avoidance of doubt and without prejudice to the generality of
subsection (1) a legal officer shall in respect of any of the matters
mentioned in section 4(1) have a right of audience before any court or
tribunal.

(3) Notification in the Gazette to the effect that a person has been appointed
to or holds any of the offices designated in Schedule 1 or has relinquished or
no longer holds any of the said offices, shall be sufficient proof of the
facts therein stated. (Amended 42 of 2000 s. 24)