http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/47/section/2Solicitors Act 1974An Act to consolidate the Solicitors Acts 1957 to 1974 and certain other enactments relating to solicitors.1979-01-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2025-01-13Expert Participation2025-01-01 Part I21The Society . . . 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.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Training regulations—amay prescribe—ithe education and training . . . to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors;iiany education or training to be undergone by persons who have been admitted as solicitors;iiithe examinations or other tests to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors or who have been admitted;ivthe 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; andvthe circumstances in which . . . education or training under the regulations may be started or terminated;bmay require persons who have been admitted as solicitors to hold practising certificates while they are undergoing education or training under the regulations;cmay include provision for the charging of fees by the Society and the application of fees which the Society receives;dmay make different provision for different classes of persons and different circumstances.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S. 2 extended (22.5.2000) by S.I. 2000/1119, regs. 1, 37(3), Sch. 4 para. 1(1)Words in s. 2(1) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(a), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii)(i)S. 2(2) repealed (1.4.1991) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20; S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch.Words in s. 2(3)(a)(i) repealed (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(b)(i), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)(n)(i)Words in s. 2(3)(a)(v) repealed (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(b)(ii), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)(n)(i)Words in s. 2(3)(a)(v) inserted (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(b)(iii) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)S. 2(4) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(c), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii)(i)S. 2(5) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(c), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii)(i)