53 The Council for Licensed Conveyancers

Licensed conveyancers [and licensed CLC practitioners]

53  The Council for Licensed Conveyancers

[(1)     The Council for Licensed Conveyancers has the powers necessary to enable it to become designated as an approved regulator in relation to one or more of the reserved legal activities within subsection (1A).

(1A)     The reserved legal activities to which this subsection applies are—

(a)     the exercise of a right of audience;

(b)     the conduct of litigation;

(c)     probate activities.

(2)     If the Council becomes an approved regulator in relation to one or more of those activities, it may, in that capacity, authorise a person to carry on a relevant activity . . ..

(3)     Where the Council authorises [a person] to carry on a relevant activity, it is to do so by issuing a licence to [the person in respect of that activity].]

(4)     [If the person granted a licence under this section is a licensed conveyancer, the] licence may be granted as a separate licence or as part of a composite licence comprising the licensed conveyancer's licence issued under Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 and any other licence which the Council may grant to the licensed conveyancer concerned.

[(4A)     If the

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