Amendment of section 365

In section 365 (professional misconduct and criminal offences)—

a

in subsection (1)(a), after “criminal offence,”, there shall be inserted “or to have been convicted elsewhere of an offence which, if committed in England and Wales, would constitute a criminal offence,”;

b

in subsection (2), for “under section 42 below by the Preliminary Proceedings Committee” there shall be substituted “under section 41A by the Interim Orders Committee”.