Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11 U.K. Renaming of the Supreme Courts of England and Wales and Northern Ireland

Part 4 U.K. Specific Amendments

Solicitors Act 1974 (c. 47) U.K.

21 (1) The Solicitors Act 1974 is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In section 6 (keeping of the roll) in subsection (1) for “Supreme Court” substitute “ Senior Courts ”.

(3) F1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) In section 29 (non-British subjects as solicitors) for “of the Supreme Court or of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland” substitute “ of the Senior Courts or of the Court of Judicature ”.

(5) In section 50 (jurisdiction over solicitors)—

(a) in the side-note and subsection (1) for “Supreme Court” substitute “ Senior Courts ”;

(b) in subsection (2) for “Supreme Court was” substitute “ Senior Courts were ”.

(6) In section 87 (interpretation) in the definitions of “contentious business”, “the roll”, and “solicitor” for “Supreme Court” substitute “ Senior Courts ”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 11 para. 21(3) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 210, 211, Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(i)(xii) (with art. 9)