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

Administration of Justice Act 1985

11.—(1) Paragraphs 16 to 21 of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1985(1) (Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal proceedings) 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effect as applied by regulation 37(3) of, and Schedule 4 to, the 2000 Regulations as if the 2000 Regulations had not been revoked by regulation 3—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 in relation 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.

(2) So far as it relates to paragraphs 16 to 18A of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1985, sub-paragraph (1) only applies where the complaint falling within paragraph 16 relates to a conviction imposed or a failure to comply or an act in contravention that occurs—

(a) before exit day, or

(b) before the end of the transitional period,

as the case may be.

(3) So far as it relates to paragraphs 20 and 21 of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1985, sub-paragraph (1) only applies where the conduct or default out of which the reason for making the order arises occurs—

(a) before exit day, or

(b) before the end of the transitional period,

as the case may be.

(1)

Paragraphs 16 to 21 were amended by section 125 of, and Schedule 18, paragraph 57 and Schedule 20 to, the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, section 177(b) of, and Schedule 16, Part 2, paragraphs 104 to 109 and Schedule 23 to, the Legal Services Act 2007, section 39(1) of, and Schedule 5, Part 1, paragraph 32 to, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and S.I. 2015/401.