Introduction
1.These Explanatory Notes have been prepared by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland (“the Council”) on behalf of David McLetchie, MSP, the member in charge of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland Bill. They have been prepared in order to assist the reader of the Act and to help inform debate on it. They do not form part of the Act and have not been endorsed by the Parliament.
2.The Notes should be read in conjunction with the Act. They are not, and are not meant to be, a comprehensive description of the Act. So where a section, or a part of a section, does not seem to require any explanation or comment, none is given.