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159M PDFTitle:SOLICITORS (PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY) RULESGazette Number:
Rule:6Heading:Compulsory IndemnityVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) Subject to rule 7, every solicitor who is, or is held out to the public as, a solicitor in Practice in Hong Kong shall be required to have and maintain Indemnity.
(2) Any current practising certificate which has been issued to a solicitor who is required to have and maintain Indemnity and who fails to have Indemnity shall be suspended and such person shall not be qualified to act as a solicitor pursuant to section 7 of the Ordinance while he shall fail to have Indemnity.

(Enacted 1989)