Miscellaneous

24 Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal.

In the M1 Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980—

(a)

in section 53 (powers of Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal)—

(i)

in subsection (2)(c) for the words “£250” there shall be substituted the words “ £2,500 ”; and

(ii)

at the end there shall be added the following subsection—

“(8)

The Secretary of State may, by order made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament, amend paragraph (c) of subsection (2) by substituting for the amount for the time being specified in that paragraph such other amount as appears to him to be justified by a change in the value of money.”;

(b)

in Schedule 4, Part I (constitution of the tribunal)—

(i)

in paragraph 1(a), for “5” and “7” there shall be substituted, respectively, “ 10 ” and “ 14 ”;

(ii)

in paragraph 1(b), for the word “two” there shall be substituted “ 4 ”; and

(iii)

in paragraph 2 for the words “on the recommendation of the Council shall be eligible for re-appointment” there shall be substituted the words

“in the case—

(a)

of a lay member, may be re-appointed by the Lord President; and

(b)

of a solicitor member, may be so re-appointed on the recommendation of the Council”.