7The Council shall be a body corporate, with a common seal.
[F18(1)In addition to the powers conferred on the Council by the other provisions of this Act, the Council shall have power—
(a)to acquire, dispose of and otherwise intromit with rights in land; and
(b)to borrow money.
(2)The consent of the Scottish Ministers is required for the exercise of the power conferred by sub-paragraph (1)(b) above.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 8 substituted (13.10.2000) by 2000 asp 6, s. 53; S.S.I. 2000/361, art. 3(1), Sch. Pt. I (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4)
9(1)The chairman of the Council shall be appointed by the members of the Council from their own number.
(2)The chairman, or in his absence the person acting as chairman, of the Council shall have a casting vote in the proceedings of the Council.
10The Secretary of State may appoint not more than two persons to be assessors for him at the proceedings of the Council; and each such assessor (or in his absence from any proceedings such other person as may be nominated by him for the purpose of those proceedings) shall be entitled to attend and speak at the proceedings of the Council and of any committee thereof except the [F2Investigating Sub-committee, the Disciplinary Sub-committee and, in relation to proceedings for the purposes of sections 10A(2) and (3) and 11(4) of this Act, the Professional Conduct Committee]; but no assessor shall be entitled to vote at any such proceedings.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 10 substituted (1.11.2001) by 2000 asp 6, s. 60(1), Sch. 2 para. 1(5)(a); S.S.I. 2000/361, art. 3(2), Sch. Pt. II (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4)
11The powers of the Council, and any committee thereof, may be exercised notwithstanding any vacancy in the membership thereof, and the proceedings of the Council or any such committee shall not be invalidated by reason only of any defect in the election, appointment or nomination of a member.
12Subject to the provisions of this Act the Council may make standing orders for the regulation of their proceedings and the quorum at such proceedings, and of the proceedings, and the quorum at the proceedings, of any committee of the Council other than the [F3Disciplinary Sub-committee]; and for the keeping of records, the execution of documents and such other matters connected with the conduct of the Council’s business as the Council think fit.
Textual Amendments
F3Words in Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 12 substituted (1.11.2001) by 2000 asp 6, s. 60(1), Sch. 2 para. 1(5)(b); S.S.I. 2000/361, art. 3(2), Sch. Pt. II (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4)
13(1)Any fees payable by virtue of this Act in respect of the entry, or retention of a name on, or the [F4re-registration of a name in], the register shall be paid to the Council, and any expenses of the Council shall be defrayed out of the sums received by the Council either on account of those fees or otherwise.
(2)The Council shall keep proper accounts of all sums received or paid by them, and proper records in relation to those accounts, and the accounts for each financial year of the Council shall be audited by auditors appointed by the Council; and as soon as any accounts of the Council have been audited the Council shall cause them to be published, and shall send a copy of them to the Secretary of State, together with a copy of any report of the auditors thereon.
F5[(3)No person shall be appointed as an auditor under this paragraph unless he is eligible for appointment as a [F6statutory auditor under Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006].]
Textual Amendments
F4Words in Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 13(1) substituted (1.11.2001) by 2000 asp 6, s. 60(1), Sch. 2 para. 1(5)(c); S.S.I. 2000/361, art. 3(2), Sch. Pt. II (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4)
F5Sch. 1 para. 13(3) substituted (1.10.1991) by S. I. 1991/1997, reg. 2, Sch. para. 14 (with reg. 4)
F6Words in Sch. 1 para. 13(3) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), Sch. 1 para. 1(f) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
14(1)The Council may employ a registrar and such other wholetime and part-time officers and servants as they may require to enable them to carry out their functions, and may do so on such terms as to remuneration, allowances or otherwise as the Council may determine.
(2)The Council may require any person employed by them whose responsibility includes intromission with their funds to find such caution as they may determine for his duly accounting for his intromissions.
(3)The Council may pay, or enter into arrangements with insurance companies or local authorities for the payment of, pensions and other superannuation benefits to persons who have been employed by them.
15The Council may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, pay to their members, and to other persons who are members of any committee appointed by the Council, such travelling, subsistence and other allowances as they think fit.
16(1)The Council shall appoint a committee, consisting of not more than one-third of the members of the Council, to review from time to time the principles specified in any statement under section 8 of this Act, and shall delegate to that committee the functions of the Council in dealing, in accordance with those principles, with applications for registration by virtue of section 6(2)(c) of this Act.
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(4)Where the said committee F8. . . refuse a person’s application for registration, the committee F8. . . shall cause notice of the refusal to be served on that person; and any such notice shall include a statement of the reasons for the refusal.
Textual Amendments
F7Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 16(2)(3) repealed (13.10.2000) by 2000 asp 6, s. 60(2), Sch. 3; S.S.I. 2000/361, art. 3(1), Sch. Pt. I (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4)
F8Words in Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 16(4) repealed (13.10.2000) by 2000 asp 6, s. 60(2), Sch. 3; S.S.I. 2000/361, art. 3(1), Sch. Pt. I (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4)