Hong Kong Regulations

ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION RULES - RULE 4

Application for admission as solicitor

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The person seeking to be admitted as a solicitor shall file with the
Registrar a motion paper to move the Court on such date as shall be fixed by
the Registrar, which shall not be less than 14 days after the filing of such
motion paper, and shall pay to the Registrar the prescribed  fee. (L.N. 198 of
1981; L.N. 100 of 1990)

(1A) A person seeking to be admitted as a solicitor on the basis of compliance
with section 4(1)(a) or (b) of the Ordinance shall file a motion paper under
subrule (1) within 2 months after the certificate was issued to him in
accordance with rule 3(4) or (5). (L.N. 165 of 1994; L.N. 466 of 1994)

(1B) A person seeking to be admitted as a solicitor on the basis of compliance
with section 4(1)(a) or (b) of the Ordinance who fails to file a motion paper
within the 2 months' limit set out in subrule (1A) shall apply under rule 3
for another certificate to be issued to him in accordance with rule 3(4) or
(5). (L.N. 165 of 1994; L.N. 466 of 1994)

(2) A motion paper filed by a person seeking admission on the basis of
compliance with section 4(1)(a) or (b) of the Ordinance shall be accompanied
by-

   (a)  the certificate issued to him in accordance with rule 3(4) or

(5); and

   (b)  in the case of a person seeking admission on the basis of compliance
        with section 4(1)(a) of the Ordinance, such other proof as the Court
        may require of compliance by that person with section 4(1A) of the
        Ordinance. (L.N. 165 of 1994; L.N. 466 of 1994)

(2A)-(2B) (Repealed L.N. 466 of 1994)

(3) A copy of the motion paper referred to in subrule (1) and of every
document accompanying the motion paper in accordance with subrule

(2) shall be served on the Secretary for Justice and on the Society by the
person seeking to be admitted at the time that such motion paper is filed with
the Registrar. (L.N. 198 of 1981; L.N. 362 of 1997)