Section 2: Training regulations.

Solicitors Act 1974 · 1974 c.47

Part I: Right to Practise as Solicitor

2(1)

The Society . . . may make regulations (in this Act referred to as "training regulations") about education and training for persons seeking to be admitted or to practise as solicitors.

2(2)

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2(3)

Training regulations—

(a) may prescribe—

(i) the education and training . . . to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors;

(ii) any education or training to be undergone by persons who have been admitted as solicitors;

(iii) the examinations or other tests to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors or who have been admitted;

(iv) the qualifications and reciprocal duties and responsibilities of persons undertaking to give education or training for the purposes of the regulations or undergoing such education or training; and

(v) the circumstances in which . . . education or training under the regulations may be started or terminated;

(b) may require persons who have been admitted as solicitors to hold practising certificates while they are undergoing education or training under the regulations;

(c) may include provision for the charging of fees by the Society and the application of fees which the Society receives;

(d) may make different provision for different classes of persons and different circumstances.

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