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Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976
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Power of Council to deal with property of solicitors removed from or struck off the rollN.I.
37.—(1) Where the name of a solicitor is removed from or struck off the roll or a solicitor is suspended from practice, that solicitor shall within three weeks from the material date satisfy the Council that he has made suitable arrangements for making available to his clients or to some other solicitor or solicitors instructed by his clients or with the approval of the Council instructed by himself—
(a)all deeds, wills, documents constituting or evidencing title to any property, papers, books of account, records, vouchers and other documents in his or his firm's possession or control, or relating to any[F1 controlled trust; and]
(b)all sums of money due from him or his firm to, or held by him or his firm on behalf of, his clients or subject to any such trust as aforesaid,
and if he fails so to satisfy the Council, Schedule 1 shall apply in relation to him and the other persons mentioned in that Schedule.
(2) In this Article, the expression “the material date” means whichever is the latest of the following dates, that is to say—
(a)the date when the orderF1. . . …F2, by or in pursuance of which the solicitor's name is removed from or struck off the roll, or the solicitor is suspended from practice, is to take effect;
(b)the last date on which an appeal against that order may be lodged;
(c)the date on which any such appeal is dismissed or abandoned.
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