(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-15 19:25

HONG KONG -- A total of 143 Hong Kong people have applied to take part in Chinese mainland's National Judicial Examination held in Hong Kong in its third year Saturday and Sunday.

The exam, organized by the National Judicial Examination Center of the Ministry of Justice of China, is held simultaneously in different parts of the Chinese mainland.

This is the third year examination centers have been set up in Hong Kong, under the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, or CEPA.

Hong Kong permanent residents with Chinese citizenship are allowed to sit the national examination. Hong Kong residents will be granted a restricted right to practise on the Chinese mainland after passing the exam.