51 “Relevant qualification” in section 50: further provision

51  “Relevant qualification” in section 50: further provision

(1)     The Lord Chancellor may by order provide for a qualification specified in the order to be a relevant qualification for the purposes of section 50(2) and (3) in relation to an office or other position specified in the order.

(2)     A qualification may be specified under subsection (1) only if it is one

[awarded by a body which, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an approved regulator in relation to the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation (within the meaning of that Act)].

(3)     An order under subsection (1) may, in relation to a qualification specified in the order, include provision as to when a person who holds the qualification is, for the purposes of section 50, to be taken first to have held it.

(4)     Where—

(a)     a qualification is specified under subsection (1),

(b)     the qualification

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