SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3
PART 1 The Scottish Solicitors Guarantee Fund
F1Contributions by registered foreign lawyers
F21C
1
Paragraph 1 applies to a conveyancing or executry practitioner as it applies to a solicitor.
2
But it does so with the following of its provisions to be disregarded—
a
the reference in sub-paragraph (1) to an application for a practising certificate,
b
sub-paragraphs (2), (2A), (6) and (9).
3
If a conveyancing or executry practitioner fails to pay an annual contribution due by virtue of this paragraph, the Council may suspend (pending payment) the relevant entry in the register maintained by them under section 17(1) or 18(1) of the 1990 Act.
4
For the purposes of section 43 and this paragraph, the references to a conveyancing or executry practitioner (or conveyancing or executry services) are to be construed in accordance with section 23 of the 1990 Act.
Sch. 3 para. 1B and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2004) by The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (Foreign Lawyers and Multi-national Practices) Regulations (S.S.I. 2004/383), {reg. 12}