SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Foreign Lawyers: Partnerships and Recognised Bodies

Part IRegistration

Duration of registration

3

1

Every registration shall have effect from the beginning of the day on which it is entered in the register.

2

The Council may make regulations—

a

prescribing the date (“the renewal date”) by which each registered foreign lawyer must apply for his registration to be renewed; and

b

requiring every entry in the register to specify the renewal date applicable to that registration.

3

Any such regulations may—

a

provide different renewal dates for different categories of registered foreign lawyer or different circumstances;

b

provide for the Society to specify, in the case of individual registered foreign lawyers, different renewal dates to those prescribed by the regulations;

c

make such transitional, incidental and supplemental provision in connection with any provision for different renewal dates as the Council considers expedient.

4

Where a foreign lawyer is registered, the Society may cancel his registration if—

a

the renewal date for his registration has passed but he has not applied for it to be renewed; or

b

he has applied to the Society for it to be cancelled.