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Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025
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16Register of regulated legal services providersS
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(1)Each category 1 and category 2 regulator must establish and maintain a register of the legal services providers that it regulates which are authorised to provide legal services.
(2)The register must contain—
(a)in relation to each legal services provider that is an individual—
(i)the name of the individual,
(ii)the address of the place of business (or primary place of business) of the individual as most recently notified to the regulator by or on behalf of the legal services provider,
(iii)the length of time that the individual has been regulated by the regulator in connection with providing legal services,
(iv)details of any sanction resulting from disciplinary action taken against the individual, for the period of 3 years beginning with the date of its imposition,
(b)in relation to each legal services provider that is not an individual—
(i)the name of the body and what type of body it is (for example, a partnership),
(ii)the address of its principal place of business as most recently notified to the regulator by or on behalf of the legal services provider,
(iii)the length of time that the body has been regulated by the regulator in connection with providing legal services,
(iv)details of any sanction resulting from disciplinary action taken against the body, for the period of 3 years beginning with the date of its imposition.
(3)The register must also contain the details of any person or body that it regulates who or which—
(a)is not authorised to provide legal services but is entitled to be so authorised, and
(b)wishes to continue to appear in the register.
(4)An entry for a legal services provider that appears in the register by virtue of subsection (3) must state that the provider is not providing legal services at that time.
(5)The register may contain such other information relating to any person or body it regulates as the regulator considers appropriate.
(6)During any period where a legal services provider’s authorisation to provide legal services is suspended, the entry for that provider must be removed from the register (and, if such suspension is removed, the entry must be restored).
(7)The register must be accessible to, and searchable by, the public, free of charge, by such electronic means as the regulator considers appropriate.
(8)In this section, a reference to a legal services provider being authorised includes a reference to—
(a)a solicitor who has in force a practising certificate (within the meaning of section 4 of the 1980 Act),
(b)a practising advocate (who is not suspended),
(c)a legal business that is authorised to provide legal services by a category 1 regulator.
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I1S. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 103(3)
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