184. Subject to any exemptions which may be granted by the Bar Council as hereinafter provided, all barristers who hold and/or intend to apply for Practising Certificates, including Pupils in limited practice:- (Circular No. 060/03)

(1) must be insured under the current Master Policy for professional indemnity insurance effected by the Bar Association for and on behalf of its members ("the Master Policy"); and, (Circular No. 060/03)

(2) must punctually pay the premiums for such insurance:-
(a) at the rates and in the amounts determined by the Bar Council from time to time;
(b) to the insurance brokers specified by the Bar Council ("the brokers"); and
(c) at or by the time or times specified by the Bar Council.

185. It shall be a condition for the issue of Practising Certificates that barristers applying for the same shall, on making such application, produce to the Bar Association:- (Circular No. 060/03)

(1) documentary evidence, in a form approved by the Bar Council and issued by the brokers, of having duly effected insurance under the Master Policy for the period to be covered by the Practising Certificate so applied for; or,
(Circular No. 060/03)

(2) a written exemption from being so insured issued by the Bar Council.

186. The Bar Council shall have power, with or without the imposition of conditions (as to the provision of any undertakings or otherwise) to exempt a barrister admitted under section 27(4) of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance (Cap. 159) from effecting such insurance in such circumstances as the Bar Council may, at its discretion, consider appropriate. (Circular No. 67/95; 060/03)

187. [Deleted] (Circular No. 060/03)