Section 34 | Rules As To Professional Practice, Conduct And Discipline | Solicitors Scotland Act 1980 C46

34 Rules as to professional practice, conduct and discipline

Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (1980 c 46) | Legislation

Part III Professional Practice, Conduct and Discipline of Solicitors

Practice Rules

34 Rules as to professional practice, conduct and discipline

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Council may, if they think fit, make rules for regulating in respect of any matter the professional practice, conduct and discipline of solicitors [and incorporated practices].

[(1A) Rules made under this section may—

(a) provide as to the management and control by—

(i) solicitors holding practising certificates or their executors;

(ii) other incorporated practices of bodies corporate carrying on businesses consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals and firms practising as solicitors being bodies the membership of which is restricted to such solicitors, executors and other incorporated practices;

(b) prescribe the circumstances in which such bodies may be recognised by the Council as being suitable to undertake the provision of any such services;

(c) prescribe the conditions which (subject to any exceptions provided by the rules) must at all times be satisfied by bodies corporate so recognised if they are to remain so recognised (which bodies, when and for so long as so recognised, are in this Act referred to as “incorporated practices”);

(d) regulate