SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1S

Part IS Incorporation of Solicitors’ Practices

Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 c. 46S

2SIn section 18 (suspension of practising certificates)—

(a)after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(1A)If—

(a)an administration or winding up order, or an appointment of a provisional liquidator, liquidator, receiver or judicial factor has been made in relation to the incorporated practice; or

(b)a resolution has been passed for the voluntary winding-up of an incorporated practice (other than a resolution passed solely for the purposes of reconstruction or amalgamation of the incorporated practice with another incorporated practice),

the recognition under section 34(1A) of the incorporated practice shall be thereby revoked.;

(b)after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(3A)On the occurrence of the circumstances mentioned in—

(a)paragraph (a) of subsection (1A), the administrator, provisional liquidator, liquidator, receiver or, as the case may be, judicial factor appointed in relation to the incorporated practice;

(b)paragraph (b) of subsection (1A), the incorporated practice

shall immediately intimate that fact to the Council..