Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985

7 S In Schedule 1 (constitution etc. of the Law Society of Scotland)—

(a) for paragraph 6 (subscriptions) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“6 Subject to paragraph 7, every member of the Society shall, for each year, pay to the Society such subscription as may be fixed from time to time by the Society in general meeting.

6A The subscription payable under paragraph 6 by a practising member (or the propertion of it so payable, calculated by reference to the number of months remaining in the practice year) shall be paid at the time of submission of his application for a practising certificate.”;

(b) in paragraph 7 (subscription in first three years of enrolment)—

(i) the word “annual”, in both places where it occurs, is hereby repealed;

(ii) after the word “year” there shall be inserted the words “ or part thereof ”; and

(iii) there shall be added at the end the words “ (reduced, in the case of a solicitor first included in the roll for only part of a year, in that year proportionately) ”; and

(c) after the said paragraph 7 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“7A The Society shall have power, subject to paragraphs 7B to 7D, to impose in respect of any year a special subscription on all members of the Society of such amount and payable at such time and for such specified purpose as it may determine.

7B The Society may determine that an imposition under paragraph 7A shall not be payable by any category of member or shall be abated as respects any category of member.

7C An imposition under paragraph 7A or a determination under that paragraph or paragraph 7B may be made only in general meeting.

7D No imposition may be made under paragraph 7A above unless a majority of those members entitled to attend and vote at the general meeting at which it is proposed has, whether by proxy or otherwise, voted in favour of its being made.”.