Regulation 30 Practical training

(1)

The practical training which an executry practitioner must have before his name can be entered in the register of executry practitioners, is that–

(a)

he has been employed in Scotland, on or after the date of coming into force of these Regulations, by a solicitor, an executry practitioner or recognised financial institution under a training contract (or by more than one such employer under such contracts); or

(b)

he has been employed in Scotland, whether before or after the date of coming into force of these Regulations, by a solicitor, executry practitioner or a recognised financial institution under a contract of employment (or by more than one such employer under such contracts) in terms of which he has received equivalent training and experience to that he would have obtained under a training contract,

and he has a certificate to this effect from his employer which indicates (or, in the case where he has had more than one employer, he has certificates to this effect from all of his employers each of which indicate, when read together) that he has completed the training contract or, in the case mentioned in (b) above, the contract of employment to the full satisfaction of the employer and that he has received training and experience in all the subjects mentioned in regulation 30(2)(a) during the period mentioned in regulation 30(2)(b).

(2)

For the purposes of this regulation, a training contract is a contract of employment, in terms of which–

(a)

the employee receives training and experience in connection with the provision of executry services in Scotland under which he receives training in the following subjects, namely–

(i)

the general principles of book-keeping;

(ii)

the analysis and interpretation of profit and loss accounts and balance sheets;

(iii)

trust and executry accounts and schemes of division;

(iv)

wills, trusts and executries;

(v)

professional ethics and responsibilities; and

(b)

the period of such training and experience is equivalent to no less than one year devoted full-time and exclusively to such training and experience and is achieved over a period of not more than five consecutive years.