Part I Right to Practise as Solicitor

Practising certificates

9 Applications for practising certificates.

1

On receipt of an application for a practising certificate, the Society shall cause to be entered in a register kept for that purpose the applicant’s full name, his place or places of business and the date of his admission.

2

The register may be kept by means of a computer.

3

If the register is kept by means of a computer, the Society shall make any entry available for inspection in legible form during office hours, without payment, by any person who applies to inspect it.

4

If the register is not kept by means of a computer, any person may inspect it during office hours without payment.

5

If in, or in relation to, an application for a practising certificate or a notice under section 84(1) any person makes any false statement material to the application or notice, a complaint in respect of that statement may be made to the Tribunal by or on behalf of the Society.