making provision as to the management and control F2of legal services bodies;

prescribing the F3requirements which (subject to any exceptions provided by the rules) must at all times be satisfied by bodies F31and sole solicitors’ practicesF4. . . so recognised if they are to remain so recognised; and

regulating the conduct of the affairs of such bodies F32and sole solicitors’ practices .

solicitor services, or

solicitor services and other relevant legal services.

solicitor services, and

where authorised persons other than solicitors or registered European lawyers are managers or employees of, or have an interest in, a recognised body, F34or are employees in a recognised sole solicitor’s practice, services of the kind provided by individuals practising as such authorised persons (whether or not those services involve the carrying on of reserved legal activities within the meaning of the Legal Services Act 2007).

for the manner and form in which applications for recognition under this section F7, or for the renewal of such recognition, are to be made, and requiring such applications to be accompanied by a fee of such amount as the Society may from time to time determine;

for the manner and form in which other applications under the rules are to be made, and requiring such applications to be accompanied by a fee of such amount as the Society may from time to time determine;

requiring recognised bodies, F35recognised sole solicitors’ practices, or descriptions of such bodies or practices , to pay periodical fees of such amount as the Society may from time to time determine;

for regulating the names that may be used by recognised bodies F36or recognised sole solicitors’ practices ;

about the time when any recognition, or renewal of recognition, takes effect and the period for which it is (subject to the provisions made by or under this Part) to remain in force;

for the suspension or revocation of any such recognition, on such grounds and in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the rules;

about the effect on the recognition of a partnership or other unincorporated body (“the existing body”) of any change in the membership of the existing body, including provision for the existing body's recognition to be transferred where the existing body ceases to exist and another body F37, or a sole solicitor’s practice, succeeds to the whole or substantially the whole of its business;

for the keeping by the Society of a register containing the names and places of business of all bodies F39and sole solicitors’ practices which are for the time being recognised under this section, and such other information relating to F40them as may be specified in the rules;

for information (or information of a specified description) on such a register to be made available to the public, including provision about the manner in which, and times at which, information is to be made so available;

for rules made under any provision of the 1974 Act to have effect in relation to recognised bodies F41or recognised sole solicitors’ practices with such additions, omissions or other modifications as appear to the F6Society to be necessary or expedient;

about the education and training requirements to be met by managers and employees of recognised bodies F42or employees in recognised sole solicitors’ practices ;

for rules made under any provision of the 1974 Act to have effect in relation to managers and employees of recognised bodies F42or employees in recognised sole solicitors’ practices with such additions, omissions or other modifications as appear to the Society to be necessary or expedient;

requiring recognised bodies to appoint a person or persons to monitor compliance, by the recognised body, its managers and its employees, with requirements imposed on them by or by virtue of this Act or any rules applicable to them by virtue of this section;

requiring the sole solicitor in a recognised sole solicitor’s practice to appoint a person or persons to monitor compliance, by the sole solicitor and the employees in the practice, with requirements imposed on them by or by virtue of this Act, the 1974 Act or any rules applicable to them by virtue of this section or the 1974 Act;

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for the manner of service on recognised bodies F44, or on sole solicitors in relation to recognised sole solicitors’ practices, of documents authorised or required to be served F45... under or by virtue of this Part.

for the recognition of such bodies to be suspended or revoked, on such grounds and in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the rules;

as to the criteria and procedure for the Society's approving, as suitable to be a manager of a recognised body, an individual who is not legally qualified (and for the Society's withdrawing such approval).

to suspend or revoke the recognition of any body F46or sole solicitor’s practice ;

not to approve, as suitable to be the manager of a recognised body, an individual who is not legally qualified (or to withdraw such approval).

the case is of a kind prescribed for the purposes of this section by rules made by the Society, and

the Society considers that it is in the public interest to do so.

may, in such circumstances as may be prescribed, direct that the F49... recognition is to have effect subject to such conditions as the Society may think fit.

“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Society.

conditions requiring the body F50, or the sole solicitor, to take specified steps that will, in the opinion of the Society, be conducive to the carrying on F51... of an efficient business;

conditions which prohibit the body F52, or the sole solicitor, from taking any specified steps except with the approval of the Society;

if rules under this section provide for the recognition of legal services bodies which have one or more managers who are not legally qualified, a condition that all the managers of the body must be legally qualified.

“Specified” means specified in the condition.