Section 24

Rights of audience in Court of Session, House of Lords, Judicial Committee of Privy Council and High Court of Justiciary

Section 30

Regulation of right of English, Welsh and Northern Irish practitioners to practise in Scotland

Section 33

Complaints in relation to legal services

In section 34–

subsections (2) to (8)

Powers and jurisdiction of Scottish legal services ombudsman

Section 43

Functions of Director General of Fair Trading in relation to certain rules

Section74

Amendments and repeals

Only for the purpose of bringing into force the provisions of Schedules 8 and 9 specified or referred to in column 1 below

In Schedule 8 – paragraphs 27(1) and (2), 29(1) to (4), (8) to (14), (15)(a) and (e), (16) and (17), and 38

Amendments

In Schedule 9 – the repeals specified in the Table below

Repeals

1980 c. 46

The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980

In section 20(1), the word “and”.

Section 31(3).

In section 63(1), the words “and to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month”.

In Schedule 4, in paragraph 1, the words “appointed by the Lord President” following sub-paragraph (b), and in paragraph 17, the words from “also” to “before the order” and the words from “and in such other manner” to the end.

Section 74(2)

Repeals

Only for the purpose of bringing into force the provisions of Schedule 9 referred to in column 1 below

In Schedule 9 – the repeals specified in the Table below

Repeals

1975 c. 24

The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975

In Schedule 1, the words “lay observer appointed under section 49 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980”.

1980 c. 46

The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980

Section 49.

In section 65(1), the definition of “lay observer”.

Schedule 5.