Chapter:	159J	Title:	TRAINEE SOLICITORS RULES	Gazette Number:	L.N. 171 of 1999
Rule:	9A	Heading:	Employment prior to entering into a trainee solicitor contract	Version Date:	02/07/1999

(1)-(2) (Repealed L.N. 171 of 1999)
(3) A trainee solicitor may apply for approval from the Society that a period of employment in Hong Kong prior to entering into a trainee solicitor contract in Hong Kong is relevant work experience and where he does so the Society may reduce the period of the trainee solicitor contract by 1 month when there is a minimum total of 3 years of relevant work experience, with an additional 1 month reduction for every additional year of relevant work experience, but the period of reduction shall not exceed 6 months. (L.N. 171 of 1999)
(4) The Society shall not consider work experience gained prior to entering into a trainee solicitor contract in Hong Kong as relevant for the purposes of paragraph (3) unless it is satisfied that-

(a) the work experience gained is equivalent to the experience gained under a trainee solicitor contract; and
(b) the work experience is gained within the 10 years immediately prior to the date of the trainee solicitor contract.

(a) in a form approved by the Society completed by the trainee solicitor;
(b) accompanied by a reference from the person who previously employed him specifying the dates of commencement and termination of the employment and the duties undertaken; and
(c) accompanied by the prescribed fee.