The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (Foreign Lawyers and Multi-national Practices) Regulations 2004

Modification of provisions of the 1980 Act

13.  Sections(1) 30, 37, 38, 39, 39A, 40, 41, 42, 42A, 42B, 42C, 43, 45 (except subsection (4)), 47, 51 (except the references to a solicitor appointed under subsections (1) and (4)), 52(1), 53 (except subsections (2)(g), (6B) and (8)(b)), 53A, 53B, 53C, 54, 55 (except subsections (1)(ba) and (bb) and (3A)), 56, 56A, 61, 61A, 62A (except the references in that section to section 46), 63 and 64, paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 and Schedule 4 shall apply to registered foreign lawyers as they apply to solicitors and any reference in those sections as so applied–

(a) to a solicitor’s practising certificate shall be construed as a reference to a registered foreign lawyer’s registration certificate;

(b) to the roll shall be construed as a reference to the register of foreign lawyers;

(c) to enrolment shall be construed as a reference to registration on the register of foreign lawyers; and

(d) to being struck off the roll shall be construed as a reference to being removed from the register of foreign lawyers.

(1)

The 1985 Act, Schedule 1, amended or inserted sections 30, 37 to 39, 39A, 40 to 42, 43, 45, 47, 51, 52(1), 53, 54, 61, 62A and 64 and Schedule 4. The 1990 Act, Schedule 8, amended or inserted sections 42A, 51, 53, 55, 56A, 63 and Schedule 4. The 1990 Act, section 36, inserted section 61A. The 2000 Regulations, Schedule 1, amended section 43. The 1988 Act, Schedules 1 and 2, amended sections 38, 40, 41, 42, 51, 53 and Schedule 4; section 1 and 2 of that Act inserted sections 42A to 42C; section 3 of that Act inserted sections 53A to 53C and section 4 of that Act inserted section 39A. The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55) (“the 1980 Act”), section 25, amended section 42 and Schedule 3 of that Act amended section 51. Section 51 was amended by the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 47) (“the 1986 Act”), Schedule 3 and S.I. 1999/1042, Schedule 2. Schedule 4 was amended by S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2.