規章及規則
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(只備英文版本)
with amendments up to 4 December 2020
1. In these presents, unless the context otherwise requires:-
"The Bar" shall mean the Bar of Hong Kong.
"The Bar Association" shall mean the Hong Kong Bar Association as constituted by these presents.
"The Bar Council" shall mean the Executive Committee of the Bar Association.
"These presents" shall mean these regulations or other regulations for the time being of the Bar Association.
"The Chairman" shall mean the Chairman of the Bar Association and shall include the Acting Chairman, if any.
"The Vice-Chairman" shall mean the Vice-Chairman or one of the Vice-Chairmen of the Bar Association.
"The Honorary Secretary" shall include any person elected to perform or actually performing the duties of Secretary and Treasurer.
"The Deputy Honorary Secretary" shall mean any person appointed or elected to perform or actually performing the duties of Deputy Honorary Secretary.
"Extraordinary Resolution" shall mean a resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of Members as, being present in person or by proxy (as provided in Regulation 40A hereof) and entitled so to do, vote at a General Meeting of the Bar Association of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as an Extraordinary Resolution has been duly given.
"Practising Barrister" shall mean a barrister who has been admitted to practise in Hong Kong and who is entitled and holds himself out as willing to do so, not being otherwise employed in a full-time occupation.
"Employed Barrister" shall mean a barrister who has been admitted to practise in Hong Kong and is engaged to provide legal advice or services for his employer under a contract of employment.
"Member" shall mean a practising barrister or an employed barrister who is a Member of the Bar Association.
"Associate Member" shall mean a barrister not being a Member who is an Associate Member of the Bar Association.
"The By-Laws" shall mean the By-Laws of the Bar Association as herein contained, including such amendments and additions as may from time to time be duly made.
"In writing" shall mean written, printed or lithographed, or partly one and partly another, and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form.
Where by any provision of these presents a certain number of days' or clear days' notice of a matter is to be given, Saturdays and general holidays (as listed in the Schedule to the General Holidays Ordinance (Cap. 149) from time to time) shall not be included in calculating the sufficiency of the length of notice where the number is seven or less, and Saturdays and such general holidays shall be included in calculating the sufficiency of the length of notice where the number is eight or more.
Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural, and vice versa.
Words importing the masculine gender shall also import the feminine.
1A. References herein to a barrister or a Member of a number of years of standing at the Bar shall mean a barrister or a Member having been in full practice at the Bar in a total cumulative period or periods of that number of years.
1B. Seniority between Members for all purposes shall be measured, in regard to the Inner Bar, by the order of appointment as a Queen’s Counsel or Senior Counsel in Hong Kong and, in regard to the Outer Bar, by the order of admission in Hong Kong as a barrister.
