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3. For Articles 8 and 9 of the Solicitors Order there shall be substituted—
8.—(1) The registrar shall continue to keep the roll in the form of an alphabetical list of all solicitors.
(2) The Society shall have the custody of the roll and of all documents relating thereto.
(3) The roll shall be kept in accordance with the provisions of this Order and of regulations and may be kept by means of a computer.
(4) If the roll is kept by means of a computer, the Society shall make any entry available for inspection in legible form during office hours, without payment, by any person who applies to inspect it.
(5) If the roll is not kept by means of a computer, any person may inspect it during office hours without payment.
(6) The Society, on the application of a solicitor, may cause his name to be removed from the roll.
(7) Regulations under paragraph (3) may—
(a)provide for the Society, at such intervals as may be specified in the regulations, to enquire of solicitors of any class so specified whether they wish to have their names retained on the roll;
(b)require solicitors of any such class, at such intervals as aforesaid, to pay to the Society a fee in respect of the retention of their names on the roll of such amount as may be prescribed;
(c)authorise the Society to remove from the roll the name of any solicitor who—
(i)fails to reply to any enquiry made in pursuance of sub-paragraph (a) or to pay any fee payable by virtue of sub-paragraph (b); or
(ii)replies to any such enquiry by indicating that he does not wish to have his name retained on the roll; and
(d)authorise the Society to remove from the roll the name of any solicitor who has died.
9.—(1) On production—
(a)of an admission of any person as a solicitor signed by the Lord Chief Justice; or
(b)of an order for the replacement on the roll of the name of a person whose name has been struck off it,
and on payment to the Society of such fee as may be prescribed, the registrar shall enter the name of that person on the roll.
(2) The Society, on the application of a former solicitor whose name is not on the roll because it has been removed from it, may cause his name to be entered on the roll on payment by him to the Society of such fee as may be prescribed.”.
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