SCHEDULES

I2C1 SCHEDULE 2F10Legal services practices: Supplementary Provisions

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I2

Sch. 2 wholly in force at 1.1.1992 see s. 69(2) and S.I. 1991/2683, art. 2

Amendments (Textual)
F10

Words in Sch. 2 heading substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 85 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(b)(ii)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) by SI 2000/1119 Sch. 4 para. 24(2) (as substituted (1.11.2015) by The Legal Services Act 2007 (The Law Society) (Modification of Functions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/401), art. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 3(c)(ii))

Interpretation

I11

1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), references in this Schedule to a recognised body F12or a recognised sole solicitor’s practice are references to a body F13or sole solicitor’s practiceF1. . . for the time being recognised under section 9 of this Act.

2

References in this Schedule to a recognised body F12or a recognised sole solicitor’s practice in relation to—

a

a complaint (other than such a complaint as is mentioned in paragraph 16(1)(a)); F2. . .

b

F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

include references to a body F13or sole solicitor’s practiceF3. . . that was recognised under section 9 of this Act at the time when the conduct to which the complaint F4. . . relates took place.

F52A

References in this Schedule to a manager or employee of a recognised body, F14or to an employee in a recognised sole solicitor’s practice, in relation to a complaint (other than such a complaint as is mentioned in paragraph 16(1A)(a)), include references to a person who was such a manager or employee at the time when the conduct to which the complaint relates took place.

F112B

In this Schedule references to employment in a recognised sole solicitor’s practice have the same meaning as in section 9.

3

F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4

In section 87(1) of the 1974 Act the definitions of “client”, “contentious business” and “non-contentious business” shall apply F15for the purposes of this Schedule; and for the purposes of—

a

F17any provision of this Schedule in so far as it has effect in relation to a recognised body ; and

b

any provision of the 1974 Act in so far as it has effect in relation to a recognised body by virtue of this Schedule,

F16they shall apply as if for any reference to a solicitor there were substituted a reference to a recognised body F7. . . .

5

Subject to sub-paragraphs F8sub-paragraphs (4) and (6), any expression used in this Schedule which is also used in the 1974 Act has the same meaning as in that Act.

F96

In this Schedule—

  • “manager”, in relation to a body, has the same meaning as in the Legal Services Act 2007 (see section 207 of that Act);

  • “registered European lawyer” has the same meaning as in section 9A;

  • “the 1974 Act” means the Solicitors Act 1974.