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159S PDFTitle:FOREIGN LAWYERS REGISTRATION RULESGazette Number:
Section:13Heading:Disciplinary mattersVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) A principal of a Hong Kong firm shall not permit the number of foreign lawyers associated with the firm to exceed the number of resident principals and solicitors employed in the firm or such greater number as the Council may approve in any particular case where it considers there are special circumstances.
(2) A principal of a foreign firm shall not-

        (a) offer, or permit to be offered, to the public the services of any employee as a practitioner of foreign law unless that employee is a foreign lawyer or a solicitor who does not hold a practising certificate;
        (b) in relation to any employee whose services are offered to the public as a practitioner of foreign law, hold out such employee, or permit such employee to be held out, to the public as being qualified or entitled to practise as a solicitor, whether at that or any other time.
(3) A principal of the Hong Kong firm or any foreign firm in an Association shall ensure that the number of foreign lawyers associated with the Hong Kong firm or foreign firm or firms in the Association does not exceed the number of solicitors associated with the Hong Kong firm or such greater number as the Council may approve in any particular case where it considers there are special circumstances.
(4) Where a foreign firm is a member of more than one Association, a foreign lawyer associated with that firm shall not be counted, for the purpose of subsection (3), in respect of more than one Association.
(5) Where a Hong Kong firm is a member of more than one Association, a solicitor associated with that firm shall not be counted, for the purpose of subsection (3), in respect of more than one Association.
(Enacted 1994)