19 Register of licensed conveyancers.E+W
(1)The Council shall establish and maintain, in such form as the Council may determine, a register containing the names and places of business of all persons who for the time being hold licences in force under this Part.
[F1(1A)The Council may make rules specifying the further information, including information about disciplinary measures taken, to be recorded in the register in relation to a person.]
(2)The Council shall F2... cause the appropriate entries and deletions to be made in the register on the issue and termination of licences under this Part; and where any licence held by a person is for the time being suspended by virtue of any provision of this Part the Council shall cause that fact to be noted in the register against that person’s name.
(3)Any change in a licensed conveyancer’s place or places of business shall be notified by him to the Council within the period of fourteen days beginning with the date on which the change takes effect.
(4)The Council shall provide facilities for making the information contained in the entries in the register available for inspection in visible and legible form by any person during office hours and without payment.
(5)A certificate signed by an officer of the Council appointed for the purpose and stating—
(a)that any person does or does not, or did or did not at any time, hold a licence in force under this Part; or
(b)that any licence held by any person is or was at any time either free of conditions or subject to any particular conditions,
shall, unless the contrary is proved, be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate; and a certificate purporting to be so signed shall be taken to have been so signed unless the contrary is proved.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 19(1A) inserted (29.6.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(6)(c), Sch. 20 para. 4(2); S.I. 2015/1402, art. 2(c)
F2Word in s. 19(2) omitted (29.6.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(6)(c), Sch. 20 para. 4(3); S.I. 2015/1402, art. 2(c)