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6 Keeping of the roll.E+W
(1)The Society shall continue to keep a list of all solicitors of the Supreme Court, called “the roll”.
(2)The roll may be kept by means of a computer.
(3)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.
(4)If the roll is not kept by means of a computer, any person may inspect it during office hours without payment.
7 Entry of name and restoration of name struck off.E+W
On production—
(a)of an admission of any person as a solicitor signed by the Master of the Rolls F1. . ., or
(b)of an order for the restoration to the roll of the name of a person whose name has been struck off it, [F2or
(c)of an order under section 47(2)(h) for the restoration of a person’s name to the roll,]
and on payment to the Society of such fee F3. . . as the [F4Society] may from time to time determine, the Society shall enter the name of that person on the roll.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 7(a) repealed (1. 6. 1992) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20; S.I. 1992/1221, art. 2, Sch.
F3Words repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61, SIF 34), ss. 8, 67(2), Sch. 1 para. 2, Sch. 8 Pt. III
F4Word in s. 7 substituted (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 7(b) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)
8 Removal or restoration of name at solicitor’s request.E+W
(1)The Society, on the application of a solicitor, may remove his name from 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 enter his name on the roll, on payment to the Society of such fee F5. . . as the [F6Society] may from time to time determine.
[F7(2A)Subsection (2) does not apply to a former solicitor with respect to whom a direction has been given under section 47(2)(g).]
(3)The power to enter a name on the roll conferred on the Society by subsection (2) includes power to enter the name of a person whose name was removed from the roll before the coming into force of section 5 of the M1Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1974.
[F8(4)An appeal from any decision of the Society under subsection (2) shall lie to the Master of the Rolls.
(5)The Master of the Rolls may make regulations about appeals to him under this section.]
Textual Amendments
F5Words repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61, SIF 34), ss. 8, 67(2), Sch. 1 para. 3, Sch. 8 Pt. III
F6Word in s. 8(2) substituted (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 8(2) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)
F7S. 8(2A) inserted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 125(3), Sch. 18 para. 8
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