Part II Legal Services
Miscellaneous and supplementary
I137 Admission of solicitors and notaries public.
1
For subsection (2) of section 6 of the 1980 Act (admission of persons as solicitors) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
2
Where—
a
a person has complied with the requirements of subsection (1); but
b
the Council have not lodged a petition for his admission as a solicitor within one month of his having so complied,
he may apply by petition to the court for admission as a solicitor; and if he produces the certificate mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) the court shall make an order admitting him as a solicitor.
2
Section 57 of that Act (admission of notaries public) shall be amended as follows—
a
for subsection (1) there shall be substituted—
1
The offices and functions of—
a
the clerk to the admission of notaries public; and
b
the keeper of the register of notaries public,
are hereby transferred to the Council.
b
in subsection (2), for the words from “grant” to the end there shall be substituted “
direct the Council to register him in the register of notaries public.”
”
;
c
after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsections—
2A
A petition by the Council under section 6(3A) for the admission of a person as a solicitor may, if the person so requests, include an application for the person’s admission as a notary public; and an order on any such petition admitting that person as a solicitor may admit him as a notary public and direct the Council to register him in the register of notaries public.
2B
A petition by a person under section 6(2)for his admission as a solicitor may include an application for his admission as a notary public; and an order on any such petition admitting that person as a solicitor may admit him as a notary public and direct the Council to register him in the register of notaries public.
d
in subsection (4) for the word “solicitor” there shall be substituted “
person”
”
; and
e
for subsection (5) there shall be substituted—
5
The Council may charge such reasonable fees as they consider appropriate in respect of the admission of any person as a notary public.
3
In section 58 of that Act (removal from and restoration to the register of names of notaries public)—
a
in subsection (1), for the words from “give” to the end there shall be substituted “
strike off or, as the case may be, remove his name from the register of notaries public”
”
;
b
in subsection (2), for the words from “it” to “thereupon” there shall be substituted “
the Council shall forthwith”
”
;
c
at the end of that section there shall be added the following subsections—
3
Where a person who is both a solicitor and a notary public is suspended from practising as a solicitor under this Act the Council shall forthwith remove the person’s name from the register of notaries public.
4
If the suspension of such a person as is mentioned in subsection (3) is terminated or otherwise comes to an end the Council shall restore the person’s name to the register.