Part I Right to Practise as Solicitor

Admission

3 Admission as solicitor.

1

Subject to section 4 and to section 20(3) of the Justices of the M1Peace Act 1949 (which relates to the admission as solicitors of certain persons who have served as assistant to a justices’ clerk), no person shall be admitted as a solicitor unless he has obtained a certificate from the Society that the Society—

a

is satisfied that he has complied with training regulations, and

b

is satisfied as to his character and his suitability to be a solicitor.

2

Any person who has obtained a certificate that the Society is satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1) may apply to the F1Society to be admitted as a solicitor; and if any such person so applies, the F1Society , F2. . ., shall, unless cause to the contrary is shown to F3its satifaction, in writing, and in such manner and form as the F1Society may from time to time think fit, admit that person to be a solicitor.

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