Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025

10 Regulatory committee: lay and legal members

(1) To be appointable as a lay member of a regulatory committee, a person must meet the criteria in subsections (2) and (3).

(2) The person must appear to the regulatory committee (or, in a case where the committee is unable to do so, the category 1 regulator) to be—

(a) qualified to represent the interests of the public in relation to the provision of legal services in Scotland, or

(b) having regard to the regulator’s regulatory functions, suitable in other respects.

(3) The person must not be, and must not have been for at least 10 years, eligible for appointment as a legal member.

(4) A person may be appointed as a legal member of a regulatory committee only if the person is (any of)—

(a) a solicitor or a person training to become a solicitor in accordance with regulations made under section 5 of the 1980 Act,

(b) an advocate or a person who has matriculated as an intrant with a view to becoming an advocate,

(c) a conveyancing or executry practitioner as defined in section 23 of the 1990 Act,

(d) a person who has acquired a right to provide legal services by virtue of Chapter 3 (or under section 27 of the 1990 Act),

(e) regulated or represented by—

(i) a regulatory body authorised by the Legal Services Board established under section 2 of the Legal Services Act 2007 with the exception of those authorised to regulate chartered accountants,

(ii) the Law Society of Northern Ireland,

(iii) the Bar of Northern Ireland.