§ 1. In this Schedule—
§ "the Act of 1974" means the Solicitors Act 1974;
§ "controlled trust" means, in relation to a registered foreign lawyer who is a member of a multi-national partnership, a trust of which he is a sole trustee or co-trustee only with one or more of the employees or other partners of that partnership and of which he is a trustee by virtue of his being a member of that partnership;
§ "the Council" means the Council of the Law Society;
§ "the register" means the register maintained by the
§ Society under section (Foreign lawyers: recognized bodies and partnerships with solicitors);
§ "registration" means registration in that register;
§ "the Society" means the Law Society; and
§ "the Tribunal" means the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
§ Application for registration
§ 2.—(1) An application for registration or for renewal of registration—
- (a) shall be made to the Society in such form as the Council may prescribe; and
- (b) shall be accompanied by such fee as the Council may, with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls, prescribe.
§ (2) Where such an application is duly made by a foreign lawyer, the Law Society may register the applicant if it is satisfied that the legal profession of which the applicant is a member is one which is so regulated as to make it appropriate—
- (a) for solicitors to enter into multi-national partnerships with members of that profession; and
- (b) for members of that profession to be officers of recognised bodies.
§ (3) Any registration may be made subject to such conditions as the Society sees fit to impose.
§ (4) The Council may make regulations, with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls, with respect to—
- (a) the keeping of the register (including the manner in which entries are to be made, altered or removed); and
- (b) applications for registration or renewal of registration.
§ (5) The register may be kept by means of a computer. Duration of registration
§ 3.—(1) Every registration shall have effect from the beginning of the day on which it is entered in the register.
§ (2) The Council may make regulations— 1485
- (a) prescribing the date ("the renewal date") by which each registered foreign lawyer must apply for his registration to be renewed; and
- (b) requiring every entry in the register to specify the renewal date applicable to that registration.
§ (3) Any such regulations may—
- (a) provide different renewal dates for different categories of registered foreign lawyer or different circumstances;
- (b) provide for the Society to specify, in the case of individual registered foreign lawyers, different renewal dates to those prescribed by the regulations;
- (c) make such transitional, incidental and supplemental provision in connection with any provision for different renewal dates as the Council considers expedient.
§ (4) Where a foreign lawyer is registered, the Society may cancel his registration if—
- (a) the renewal date for his registration has passed but he has not applied for it to be renewed; or
- (b) he has applied to the Society for it to be cancelled. Evidence as to registration
§ 4. Any certificate purporting to be signed by an officer of the Society and stating that a particular foreign lawyer—
- (a) is, or is not, registered; or
- (b) was registered during a period specified in the certificate,
§ PART II