Part 1Regulatory framework
Chapter 3New regulators of legal services
Miscellaneous
36Consequential amendments and repeals
(1)
Sections 25 to 29 and schedule 2 of the 1990 Act are repealed.
(2)
Section 40 of the 1990 Act (advisory and supervisory functions of the CMA) is amended as follows.
(3)
“(c)
considering—
(i)
any provisions of a draft regulatory scheme under section 27 of the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025, or
(ii)
any provision which is proposed as a revision to a regulatory scheme under section 33 of that Act,”.
(4)
Section 42 of the 1990 Act (review of rules approved by the Scottish Ministers) is amended as follows.
(5)
In subsection (1)—
(a)
paragraph (b) and the word “or” immediately preceding that paragraph are repealed,
(b)
in the closing words—
(i)
the words “and, where the Lord President, in the case of a draft scheme such as is mentioned in paragraph (b), so requests shall” are repealed,
(ii)
the words “or, as the case may be, the scheme” are repealed.
(6)
In subsection (2)—
(a)
in the opening words—
(i)
the words “or, as the case may be, a scheme,” are repealed,
(ii)
the words “or scheme” in both places they appear, are repealed,
(b)
paragraph (b) and the word “or” immediately preceding that paragraph are repealed.
(7)
Subsections (4) to (6) are repealed.
(8)
In subsection (7)—
(a)
the words “and schemes” where they first appear are repealed,
(b)
the words “and schemes submitted under section 25(1) of this Act” are repealed.