Solicitors Acts 1954 to 2008 (Practising Certificate 2009) Regulations 2008
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: An applicant solicitor who in an application delivered to the Registrar knowingly furnishes information that is false or misleading in a material respect shall be guilty of misconduct.
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paragraphs: As and from the coming into operation of these Regulations, the Registration Fee together with the contribution to the Compensation Fund as specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations shall be paid to the Society by an applicant solicitor on delivery to the Registrar of his or her application.
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paragraphs: The fee payable to the Society by a person who applies to the Registrar, pursuant to Section 17 of the Act of 1960, for a copy of an entry on File A or File B shall be as specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations.
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paragraphs: Where a solicitor to whom a practising certificate for the practice year has been issued pursuant to Regulation 3(b) of these Regulations certifies to the Registrar that his or her practising certificate has been inadvertently destroyed, lost or mislaid, such solicitor may apply to the Society for a duplicate original of such practising certificate on duly discharging the fee specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations and duly undertaking to the Registrar that in the event of the practising certificate as originally issued being subsequently found in the course of the practice year that same would forthwith be returned to the Registrar.
9. (a) Where a practising certificate for the practice year is caused to be issued by the Registrar to a solicitor subject to a specified condition or conditions, the practising certificate shall be endorsed with the words (adapted as appropriate): “Issued subject to [a] specified condition[s] as annexed” and the Registrar at the same time shall cause to be issued to the solicitor concerned a separate document (deemed to be part of the practising certificate) headed with the Society’s crest and title and also headed (adapted as appropriate): “Annexe to practising certificate of [name of solicitor] of [a] specified condition[s] attached thereto and applicable as and from [date of commencement of applicability of the specified condition or conditions]” and setting out the text of each specified condition.
(b) Where the Society give a direction pursuant to Section 59 of the Act of 1994 that the practising certificate already issued to a solicitor for the practice year should, from a date that is 21 days after the date of receipt by the solicitor concerned of notification in writing by the Society of the giving of such direction, have effect subject to a specified condition or conditions, the solicitor shall (subject to the provisions of the said section 59 of the Act of 1994 as to the solicitor’s right of appeal to the High Court), within such period of 21 days, surrender his or her current practising certificate, and the Society shall, as soon as possible, reissue it endorsed with the words (adapted as appropriate): “Issued subject to [a] specified condition[s] as annexed” and the Registrar at the same time shall cause to be issued to the solicitor concerned a separate document (deemed to be part of the practising certificate) headed with the Society’s crest and title and also headed (adapted as appropriate): “Annexe to practising certificate of [name of solicitor] of [a] specified condition[s] attached thereto and applicable as and from [date of commencement of applicability of the specified condition or conditions]” and setting out the text of each specified condition.
(c) Where a practising certificate issued or reissued to a solicitor for the practice year is subject to a specified condition or conditions as referred to in clause (a) or (b) of this Regulation:
(i) the solicitor concerned shall comply with the specified condition or each of the specified conditions, as the case may be, and shall ensure that he or she does not provide legal services to any client of the solicitor in breach of such specified condition or conditions, whether or not any such client is made aware of such specified condition or conditions, and
(ii) the solicitor concerned, in any display by him or her of his or her practising certificate, shall display with equal prominence adjacent thereto the annexe thereto setting out the specified condition or conditions to which his or her practising certificate is subject.