Part I Solicitors
Restrictions applying to unqualified persons
6 Preparation of conveyancing documents by unqualified persons.
1
Section 22 of the M1Solicitors Act 1974 (restriction on person preparing certain instruments when not qualified to act as a solicitor) shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1), for “subsection (2)” there shall be substituted “subsections (2) and (2A)”
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3
After subsection (2) there shall be inserted—
2A
Subsection (1) also does not apply to any act done by a person at the direction and under the supervision of another person if—
a
that other person was at the time his employer, a partner of his employer or a fellow employee; and
b
the act could have been done by that other person for or in expectation of any fee, gain or reward without committing an offence under this section.
4
In subsection (3)—
a
after “instrument” there shall be inserted “includes a contract for the sale or other disposition of land (except a contract to grant such a lease as is referred to in section 45(2) of theLaw of Property Act 1925 (short leases)), but”
; and
b
at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “other than a contract that is included by virtue of the preceding provisions of this subsection;”
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5
After that subsection there shall be inserted—
4
A local weights and measures authority may institute proceedings for an offence under this section.