Part I Right to Practise as Solicitor

Qualifications and training

2 Training regulations.

(1)

The Society F1. . . may make regulations (in this Act referred to as “training regulations”) about education and training for persons seeking to be admitted or to practise as solicitors.

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(3)

Training regulations—

(a)

may prescribe—

(i)

the education and training F3. . . to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors;

(ii)

any education or training to be undergone by persons who have been admitted as solicitors;

(iii)

the examinations or other tests to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors or who have been admitted;

(iv)

the qualifications and reciprocal duties and responsibilities of persons undertaking to give education or training for the purposes of the regulations or undergoing such education or training; and

(v)

the circumstances in which F4. . . education or training under the regulations may be F5started or terminated;

(b)

may require persons who have been admitted as solicitors to hold practising certificates while they are undergoing education or training under the regulations;

(c)

may include provision for the charging of fees by the Society and the application of fees which the Society receives;

(d)

may make different provision for different classes of persons and different circumstances.

(4)

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(5)

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