Part I Right to Practise as Solicitor

Unqualified persons acting as solicitors

24 Application of penal provisions to body corporate.

C11

If any act is done by a body corporate, or by any director, officer or servant of a body corporate, and is of such a nature or is done in such a manner as to be calculated to imply that the body corporate is qualified or recognised by law as qualified to act as a solicitor—

a

the body corporate shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to F1a fine not exceeding the fourth level on the standard scale, and

b

in the case of an act done by a director, officer or servant of the body corporate, he also shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to F2a fine not exceeding the fourth level on the standard scale.

C2C32

For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that in sections 20, 22 and 23 references to unqualified persons and to persons include references to bodies corporate.