SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 18Consequential Amendments
The Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61)
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1
Section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (management and control by solicitors of incorporated practices) shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1)(a)—
a
after the word “solicitors”, where it first occurs, there shall be inserted “or solicitors and one or more registered foreign lawyers”; and
b
at the end there shall be inserted “or by multi-national partnerships”.
3
In subsection (8), the following definitions shall be inserted at the appropriate places—
“multi-national partnership” means a partnership whose members consist of one or more registered foreign lawyers and one or more solicitors;
“registered foreign lawyer” means a person who is registered under section 89 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.