Chapter:	159Q	Title:	OVERSEAS LAWYERS (QUALIFICATION FOR ADMISSION) RULES	Gazette Number:	L.N. 325 of 1999
Section:	5	Heading:	Requirements for applicant from non-common law jurisdiction	Version Date:	01/01/2000

(1) For the purpose of section 2(c), unless the Society otherwise determines, a person whose jurisdiction of admission is a non-common law jurisdiction and who has had not less than 5 years of experience in the practice of the law of the jurisdiction of his admission must have-

(a) passed the Examination in all written subjects; and
(b) passed the Examination in the oral subject of Principles of Common Law.

(a) completed one year of full-time study in Contract, Torts, Property, Criminal Law, Equity and Constitutional and Administrative Law;
(b) obtained the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws; and
(c) satisfied any one of the following further requirements, that is to say-
(i) he has completed the period of service as a trainee solicitor or articled clerk required for admission as a solicitor in that jurisdiction or in Hong Kong, and where such period is less than 3 years, has had in addition a period of post-admission experience in the practice of the law of that jurisdiction, and the aggregate of those periods is not less than 3 years;
(ii) he has had a period of not less than 3 years of post-admission experience in the practice of the law of that jurisdiction; or
(iii) he has had part of the period of experience mentioned in subparagraph (ii) and has had a period of service as a trainee solicitor or articled clerk and the aggregate of those periods is not less than 3 years.