SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Amendments to Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980

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In section 10 (restoration of name to roll of solicitors on request)—

a

in subsection (1), the words “whose name has been removed from the roll under section 9 or” shall cease to have effect; and

b

after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

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On an application to the Council from a solicitor whose name has been removed from the roll under section 9 the Council may, after such inquiry as they think proper, restore the name of that solicitor to the roll.