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SCHEDULEExtension of Law Society’s power to make compensation rules for a transitional period

Compensation rules

3.  In relation to compensation rules which include provision made by virtue of paragraph 2, section 36 of the 1974 Act has effect as if—

(a)in subsection (2), after paragraph (f), there were inserted—

(fa)for a grant to be made by way of making good a deficiency in monies held in trust by the Society under paragraph 3 or 4 of Schedule 14 to the Legal Services Act 2007;;

(b)in subsection (3)(b), for “within subsection (1)(a) or (b)”, there were substituted “involving an act or omission to which compensation rules apply”; and

(c)for subsection (4), there were substituted—

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (f) or (fa) of subsection (2), there is a deficiency if the monies mentioned in the paragraph in question are insufficient to satisfy the claims of all persons with a beneficial interest in the monies..