You may be admitted as an Associate Member of the Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario if you:

1. Are in Qualifying Employment at the time you are seeking admission as an Associate Member;
2. Have been in Qualifying Employment for a period of not less than three (3) consecutive years prior to the date of seeking such admission, provided not less that one (1) of such years shall have been in the Province of Ontario;
3. Have attained the age of twenty-one (21) years;
4. Have passed the Associate's examination or examinations provided for from time to time by the board of directors or has been granted a law clerk certificate/diploma or the equivalent thereof by an Ontario educational institution approved by the board of directors from time to time; and
5. Have satisfied all of the requirements which may be set from time to time by the board of directors in respect of fitness for enrolment as an Associate Member of the Institute.
6. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) hereof, an applicant may be admitted as an Associate Member of the Institute upon such terms and conditions as to qualification and examination or exemption therefrom as the board of directors in its absolute discretion may deem fit in any case where the board of directors is, in its absolute discretion, satisfied that the applicant:
   1. Is in Qualifying Employment at the time of seeking admission as an Associate Member; and
   2. Has been admitted by examination as an Associate Member of the "Institute of Legal Executives of the United Kingdom" or has qualified by a comparable examination in any other Common Law jurisdiction.