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).
The reserved legal activities to which this subsection applies are—
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 ....
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 .
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.
If the person granted a licence under this section is not a licensed conveyancer, the licence may be granted as a separate licence or as part of a composite licence comprising that and any other licence under this section which the Council may grant to the person.
A licence under this section granted to a person who is not a licensed conveyancer ceases to have effect if the person becomes a licensed conveyancer.
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Where the Council exercises any of its powers in connection with—
it is to do so subject to any requirements to which it is subject in accordance with the provisions of the Legal Services Act 2007.
Schedule 8 makes further provision in connection with the powers given to the Council by this section and the provision made by the Act of 1985 in relation to licensed conveyancers, including amendments of Part II of that Act.
The Lord Chancellor may by order make such—
as he considers necessary or expedient in connection with the provision made by this section and Schedule 8.
Subject to any provision made by this section, Schedule 8 or any order made by the Lord Chancellor under subsection (8), the provisions of Part II of the Act of 1985 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to persons who apply for, or hold, an advocacy, litigation or probate licence and —
as they apply with respect to persons who apply for, or hold, a licence under Part 2 of the Act of 1985 and the corresponding matters dealt with by Part II of that Act.
The modifications mentioned in subsection (9) may differ depending on whether the person applying for, or holding, an advocacy, litigation or probate licence is or is not a licensed conveyancer.
Subsection (9) does not apply to section 34 of the Act of 1985 (modification of existing enactments relating to conveyancing etc).
For the purposes of this section—
In this section—
“advocacy licence” means a licence issued under this section by which the Council authorises the person concerned to exercise a right of audience;
“CLC practitioner services” has the same meaning as in section 32B of the Act of 1985;
“licensed CLC practitioner” means a person, other than a licensed conveyancer, who holds a licence under this section;
“litigation licence” means a licence issued under this section by which the Council authorises the person concerned to carry on activities which constitute the conduct of litigation;
“the practice of a licensed CLC practitioner” means the provision by a person, as the holder of a licence under this section, of CLC practitioner services in accordance with the licence; and
“probate licence” means a licence issued under this section by which the Council authorises the person concerned to carry on activities that constitute probate activities.