SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18 Consequential Amendments

The Solicitors Act 1974 (c. 47)

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In Schedule 2 to that Act after sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 there shall be inserted—

3A

The Council may require a solicitor to pay an annual contribution of a reduced amount where that payment is made with respect to a practising certificate which has a replacement date which is less than 12 months after the replacement date of the solicitor’s previous practising certificate.

3B

Where it appears from his application for a practising certificate that a solicitor has not held or received clients’ money at any time during the period specified in the application, the Council may require him—

a

to pay an annual contribution of a specified reduced amount on that application, or

b

to pay no annual contribution on that application.