Chapter:	159	Title:	LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 87 of 2003
Section:	74D	Heading:	Lawyers employed in Department of Justice	Version Date:	28/03/2003

(1) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 27A by section 8 of the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Ordinance 2000 (42 of 2000) ("the amending Ordinance"), where a person, on or before the date appointed by the Secretary for Justice by notice in the Gazette for the coming into operation of section 8(2) of the amending Ordinance, meets the requirements in section 27A(1)(a) to (d), as that section existed before its repeal, the Court may at any time admit such person as a barrister of the High Court of Hong Kong in accordance with the said section 27A(1).
(2) The Court shall not admit as a barrister, under subsection (1), more than 4 persons in any period of 12 months.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, section 27A(1)(e) and (3) does not apply to admission as a barrister under this section.