The Services of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Administration of Justice Act 1985

10.  Paragraphs 14B and 14C of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (disciplinary powers of the Law Society)(1) continue to have effect as applied by regulation 37(3) of, and Schedule 4 to, the 2000 Regulations as if the 2000 Regulations had not been revoked by regulation 3—

(a) on or after exit day, in relation to an individual who—

(i) was a registered European lawyer (within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the 2000 Regulations as it had effect immediately before exit day), registered with the Law Society, at a time before exit day, but

(ii) is not an individual to whom regulation 5 applies; and

(b) at or after the end of the transitional period, in relation to an individual who is on or after exit day an individual registered with the Law Society under regulation 17 of the 2000 Regulations, as that regulation has effect by virtue of regulation 5 of these Regulations,

as those paragraphs had effect before exit day in relation to an individual who had ceased to be registered with the Law Society under regulation 17 of the 2000 Regulations.

(1)

Paragraphs 14B and 14C were inserted by section 177(b) of, and Schedule 16, Part 2, paragraph 103 to, the Legal Services Act 2007 and amended by S.I. 2015/401.