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Section 89 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 provides for the maintenance of a register of foreign lawyers and empowers the Council of the Law Society to make Rules to regulate matters such as professional practice, the keeping of accounts, the delivery of accountants' reports and the maintenance of professional indemnity cover by registered foreign lawyers who are members, with solicitors, of multi-national partnerships. Section 89(5) of the 1990 Act empowers the Lord Chancellor by Order to provide that certain enactments or instruments shall have effect with respect to registered foreign lawyers as they have effect with respect to solicitors. This Order, made under section 89(5) of the 1990 Act, provides for certain provisions in the Solicitors Act 1974 and in the Banking Act 1987 (Exempt Transactions) Regulations 1988 (relating respectively to solicitors' bank and building society accounts and to the acceptance by solicitors of deposits) to apply to registered foreign lawyers as they apply to solicitors. The terms “registered foreign lawyer” and “multi-national partnership” are defined in section 89(9) of the 1990 Act.
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