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permitted to enter the Law School for the purposes of
the course described in this Regulation if he has not
complied with the provisions of Regulation 21 hereof
in regard to his service under Indentures.
(v) Where the Committee is satisfied that the
failure of an Apprentice to give due service under
Indentures for the prescribed period has been
occasioned by the illness of the apprentice or bv some
other excusable cause the Committee may admit the
apprentice to the Law School for the purposes ofwthe
coursc prescribed in this Regulation and direct that
the apprentice complete the outstanding period under
his indentures immediately after the completion of
such course.
(vi) If, as a result of enquiries which it has made
or of information which has been furnished to it by
an apprentice or his master, the Committee is not
satisfied as to the due service of the Apprentice under
Indentures, the Committee (except in the case where
the service of the apprentice was interrupted by
serious illness or other excusable cause) may require
the Apprentice to serve a further period in the office
of his Master or of some other approved Solicitor.
Final Examination—Third Part
23 (i) An examination entitled Final Examina-
tion—Third Part (which may be held in one or more
sections) shall be held by the Society at least once
in every year at such time or times as the Committee
may appoint.
(ii) The subjects of this examination shall be
prescribed by the Committee from among the subjects
specified in Appendix II hereof and contained in a
Syllabus to be published annually by the Society.
Discipline and Control of Apprentices
24. Should the Committee at any time during the
service of an Apprentice under Indentures or prior to
his admission as a Solicitor receive a report from the
Registrar alleging improper conduct on the part of
the Apprentice, the Committee shall consider such
report and may investigate the allegation of improper
conduct therein contained. For the purpose of any
such investigation the Committee may make such
enquiries and interview such persons as it considers
appropriate; and should it find the allegations well
founded the Committee shall be empowered to adopt
all or any of the following courses namely—
(i) Report to the President of The High Court
that the apprentice is not, in its opinion and
for the reasons to be given, a fit and proper
person to be admitted as a Solicitor;
(ii) Refuse its permission to the apprentice to take
any of the prescribed examinations of the
Society either at all or for such period as it
shall think fit in the circumstances of the case;
(iii) Suspend the apprentice from attendance at
the Law School for such period as it shall think
fit in the circumstances of the case:
Provided that an apprentice aggrieved by a decision
of the Committee under this Regulation may apply
to the President of The High Court to have such
decision reviewed by him.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
ADMISSION
AS
A
SOLICITOR
25. Subject to the provisions of the Act uml to
these Regulations, no apprentice shall be admitted
as a solicitor unless he lias passed the Final Examina-
tion prescribed bv these Regulations, completed his
due service under indentures and otherwise satisfies
the Committee that he is a fit and proper person to
be admitted as a solicitor.
EXEMPTION OF BARRISTERS-AT-LAW
26 (i) A person to whom paragraph 4 of the
Second Schedule to the Act applies and who before
becoming bound as an apprentice has complied with
the provisions thereof shall be exempt from the
Preliminary Examination and from the Final Examin-
ation—First Part.
(ii) A practising Barrister-at-Law seeking admis-
sion under Section 43 of the Act shall be exempt from
passing the Final Examination—First Part.
ENTRY FOR EXAMINATIONS
27. An intending candidate for any Examination
shall at least three weeks before the date thereof
lodge with the Society a notice in the prescribed form
with the appropriate fees.
DECLARATION OF RESULTS OF EXAMINA-
TIONS AND STANDARDS
28 (i) The Committee on being satisfied as to the
proficiency of a candidate at any Examination shall
declare him to have passed such Examination.
(ii) The names of the candidates declared to have
passed any of the Society's examinations shall be
published in such order and manner and with such
distinctions as the Committee shall determine.
(iii) The standards required for passing examina-
tions and for the award of distinctions shall be deter-
mined by the Committee.
SOLICITORS IN WHOLETIME EMPLOYMENT
29. A solicitor who is in wholetime employment
shall not take an apprentice without the permission of
the Committee and such permission, if granted, may-
be granted either unconditionally or subject to
conditions.
EXEMPTIONS
30. Notwithstanding anything in these Regula-
tions, the Committee shall have power in their dis-
cretion in any case:—
(a) to exempt an Apprentice from attendance at
specified lectures,
(b) to excuse an Apprentice for non-attendance at
lectures,
(c) to permit an Apprentice to attend and examina-
tion,