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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14E+W Foreign Lawyers: Partnerships and Recognised Bodies

Part IIE+W Registered Foreign Lawyers:Supplementary Provisions

Certification for purposes of investment businessE+W

9For the purposes of enabling the Law Society to issue certificates under Part I of the Financial Services Act 1986 (regulation of investment business) to any multi-national partnership or to any recognised body managed or controlled by solicitors and one or more registered foreign lawyers—

(a)the Society shall be taken to be the appropriate professional body for that purpose;

(b)the registered foreign lawyer concerned shall be treated—

(i)as if he were a member of the Society; and

(ii)as if he were a solicitor for the purposes of paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 3 to the Act of 1986 (requirements for recognition of professional body); and

(c)Part I of that Act shall have effect subject to any modifications which the Secretary of State sees fit to make by order under this paragraph with a view to enabling certificates to be issued to such partnerships or such recognised bodies.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 14 para. 9 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 124(3) and S.I. 1991/1883, art. 3, Sch.