35 Accounts rules
Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (1980 c 46) | Legislation

Accounts Rules [and fees]

35  Accounts rules

(1)     The Council shall, subject to section 34(2) and (3), make rules (in this Act referred to as “accounts rules”)—

(a)     as to the opening and keeping by solicitors [and incorporated practices] of accounts and deposits at the banks specified in subsection (2) [or with a building society] for moneys not belonging to them received by them in the course of their practice;

(b)     as to the opening and keeping by solicitors [and incorporated practices] of—

(i)     a deposit or share account with a building society designated under section 1 of the House Purchase and Housing Act 1959, or

(ii)     an account showing sums on loan to a local authority,

being in either case for a client whose name is specified in the title of the account;

(c)     as to the keeping by solicitors [and incorporated practices] of books and accounts containing particulars and information as to

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