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[F1(1)The Council for Licensed Conveyancers has the powers necessary to enable it to become designated as an approved regulator in relation to one or more of the reserved legal activities within subsection (1A).
(1A)The reserved legal activities to which this subsection applies are—
(a)the exercise of a right of audience;
(b)the conduct of litigation;
(c)probate activities.
(2)If the Council becomes an approved regulator in relation to one or more of those activities, it may, in that capacity, authorise a person to carry on a relevant activity only if the person is a licensed conveyancer.
(3)Where the Council authorises a licensed conveyancer to carry on a relevant activity, it is to do so by issuing a licence to the licensed conveyancer.]
(4)Any such licence may be granted as a separate licence or as part of a composite licence comprising the licensed conveyancer’s licence issued under Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 and any other licence which the Council may grant to the licensed conveyancer concerned.
(5)F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F3(6)Where the Council exercises any of its powers in connection with—
(a)an application for designation as an approved regulator in relation to a reserved legal activity within subsection (1A), or
(b)the authorising of a person to carry on a relevant activity,
it is to do so subject to any requirements to which it is subject in accordance with the provisions of the Legal Services Act 2007.]
(7)Schedule 8 makes further provision in connection with the powers given to the Council by this section and the provision made by the Act of 1985 in relation to licensed conveyancers, including amendments of Part II of that Act.
(8)The [F4Lord Chancellor] may by order make such—
(a)amendments of, or modifications to, the provisions of Part II of the Act of 1985; or
(b)transitional or consequential provision,
as he considers necessary or expedient in connection with the provision made by this section and Schedule 8.
(9)Subject to any provision made by this section, Schedule 8 or any order made by the [F5Lord Chancellor] under subsection (8), the provisions of Part II of the Act of 1985 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to—
(a)any application for an advocacy, litigation or probate licence;
(b)any such licence;
(c)the practice of any licensed conveyancer which is carried on by virtue of any such licence;
(d)rules made by the Council under Schedule 8;
(e)F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(f)any other matter dealt with by this section or Schedule 8,
as they apply with respect to the corresponding matters dealt with by Part II of that Act.
[F7(10)For the purposes of this section—
(a)“right of audience”, “conduct of litigation”, “probate activities” and “reserved legal activity” have the same meaning as in the Legal Services Act 2007;
(b)references to designation as an approved regulator are to designation as an approved regulator—
(i)by Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Legal Services Act 2007, by virtue of an order under paragraph 5 of Schedule 22 to that Act, or
(ii)under Part 2 of Schedule 4 to that Act;
(c)“relevant activity” means an activity which is a reserved legal activity—
(i)which is within subsection (1A), and
(ii)in relation to which the Council is designated as an approved regulator by Part 1 of Schedule 4 to that Act (by virtue of an order under paragraph 5 of Schedule 22 to that Act) or under Part 2 of that Schedule.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 53(1)(1A)(2)(3) substituted (1.1.2010) for s. 53(1)-(3) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 34(2) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(iii) (with art. 9)
F2S. 53(5) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 210, 211, Sch. 17 para. 34(3), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, arts. 2(f)(iii)(i)(viii)(dd) (with art. 9)
F3S. 53(6) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 34(4) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(iii) (with art. 9)
F4Words in s. 53(8) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 34(5) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(ii)
F5Words is s. 53(9) substituted (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 34(6)(a) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(ii)
F6S. 53(9)(e) repealed (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 210, 211, Sch. 17 para. 34(6)(b), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(c)(ii)(i)(vi)(aa)
F7S. 53(10) inserted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 182, 211, Sch. 17 para. 34(7) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(iii) (with art. 9)
Commencement Information
I1S. 53 wholly in force at 7.12.2004; s. 53 in force at 1.4.1991 (except in so far as it relates to certain exemptions under section 55) see s. 124(3) and S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch.; s. 53 otherwise in force at 7.12.2004 by S.I. 2004/2950, art. 2
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