Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986

[F128RFurther provision as to removal of name from registerU.K.

(1)Subsection (2) applies where the Board is satisfied (whether on being informed by the solicitor concerned or otherwise) that a solicitor who is included in the register maintained under section 28M(1)—

(a)has become connected with a firm whose name is not included in that register, and

(b)is no longer connected with a firm whose name is included in that register.

(2)The Board must remove the solicitor's name from the register.

(3)Subsections (6) to (9) of section 25D (as applied by section 28Q) apply in relation to a solicitor whose name is removed from the register under subsection (2) above as they apply in relation to a solicitor whose name is removed from the register under subsection (4) of that section (as applied by section 28Q).]

Textual Amendments

F1Pts. 5A, 5B inserted (31.1.2012 for s. 28B(2), s. 28M(7) for specified purposes and s. 28N) by Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1), ss. 191, 206(2) (with s. 186); S.S.I. 2012/1, art. 2(1), sch.