HC Deb 18 July 1933 vol 280 cc1722-3

Amendments made: In page 21, line 2, leave out the words "enrolled law agents,"and insert instead thereof the word "solicitors."

Leave out from the word "appointed,"to the end of line 3.—[The Lord Advocate.]

The LORD ADVOCATE

I beg to move, in page 21, line 4, to leave out the word "and,"and to insert instead thereof the words: provided that in the event of the said Rules Council being established before the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the first appointment of solicitors to be members thereof shall be made by the Lord President.

Mr. C. WILLIAMS

I do not think that this Amendment is quite consequential; in fact, I am sure it is not. May I ask why it is that the date is put off until March, 1934? Would it not be better to accelerate it. to the end of the year or something of that kind? Clearly, the Amendment is not merely consequential, and I think the House might know why the date is being postponed for so long.

5.33 p.m.

The LORD ADVOCATE

A Council of Solicitors was set up by the Solicitors Bill which has just become law, and that Measure does not come into force until the 1st March, 1934. Accordingly, we have to provide for the appointment of solicitors to the Rules Council until such time as the Rules Council begins to function under the Solicitors Act. We have to provide for the intervening period, and we propose to vest the power of appointing solicitors to the Rules Council in the Lord President until the Solicitors Council comes into being.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In page 21, line 5, after the word "of,"insert the words "sub-sections (2), (3), and (4) of."

In line 6, leave out the words "and the members and quorum thereof."

In line 8, leave out the words "and the members and quorum thereof."—[The Lord Advocate.]