Paragraph 1 I1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), references in this Schedule to a recognised body F1or a recognised sole solicitor’s practice are references to a body F2or sole solicitor’s practice F3. . . for the time being recognised under section 9 of this Act.

References in this Schedule to a recognised body or a recognised sole solicitor’s practice in relation to—

include references to a body or sole solicitor’s practice F5. . . that was recognised under section 9 of this Act at the time when the conduct to which the complaint F6. . . relates took place.

References in this Schedule to a manager or employee of a recognised body, F8or to an employee in a recognised sole solicitor’s practice, in relation to a complaint (other than such a complaint as is mentioned in paragraph 16(1A)(a)), include references to a person who was such a manager or employee at the time when the conduct to which the complaint relates took place.

In this Schedule references to employment in a recognised sole solicitor’s practice have the same meaning as in section 9.

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In section 87(1) of the 1974 Act the definitions of “client”, “contentious business” and “non-contentious business” shall apply F11for the purposes of this Schedule; and for the purposes of—

F13they shall apply as if for any reference to a solicitor there were substituted a reference to a recognised body F14. . . .

Subject to sub-paragraphs F15sub-paragraphs (4) and (6), any expression used in this Schedule which is also used in the 1974 Act has the same meaning as in that Act.

In this Schedule—

• “manager”, in relation to a body, has the same meaning as in the Legal Services Act 2007 (see section 207 of that Act);

• “registered European lawyer” has the same meaning as in section 9A;

• “the 1974 Act” means the Solicitors Act 1974.