Part IIS Right to Practise as a Solicitor

[F1Registration certificates for registered European LawyersS

Textual Amendments

F1Cross-heading and ss. 24A - 24G and inserted (22.5.2000) by S.S.I. 2000/121, regs. 1(1), 37(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(3)

F224A Applications for registration certificatesS

(1)Subject to sections 24B to 24G below, the Council may make rules with respect to–

(a)applications for;

(b)the issue of;

(c)the keeping of a register for and the issue of,

registration certificates for registered European lawyers as it would make rules under section 13 with respect to practising certificates for enrolled solicitors.

(2)Any person may inspect the register referred to in subsection (1)(c) during office hours without payment.

(3)The making of a false statement by a registered European lawyer in an application for a registration certificate may be treated as professional misconduct by him for the purposes of Part IV, unless he proves the statement was made without intention to deceive.]

Textual Amendments