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Solicitors Act 1974

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Version Superseded: 01/01/2010

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24 Application of penal provisions to body corporate.E+W

(1)If any act is done by a body corporate, or by any director, officer or servant of a body corporate, and is of such a nature or is done in such a manner as to be calculated to imply that the body corporate is qualified or recognised by law as qualified to act as a solicitor—

(a)the body corporate shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to [F1a fine not exceeding the fourth level on the standard scale, and]

(b)in the case of an act done by a director, officer or servant of the body corporate, he also shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to [F2a fine not exceeding the fourth level on the standard scale.]

(2)For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that in sections 20, 22 and 23 references to unqualified persons and to persons include references to bodies corporate.

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