# The Administration of Justice Act 1985 (Commencement No. 7) Order 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force sections 9 and 10 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (incorporated practices). Section 9 allows the Council of the Law Society to make rules regulating the carrying on of a solicitor’s practice through bodies corporate, brings into force the provisions of Schedule 2 to the Act (“Incorporated Practices: Supplemental Provisions”) and empowers the Lord Chancellor to apply provisions relating to Solicitors to such bodies corporate (with or without modification). Section 10 establishes an offence of pretending to be a body recognised under section 9.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2683/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985-commencement-no-7-order-1991/note
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