Regulation 9 Actual and potential conflicts between client and independent qualified conveyancer

Where an independent qualified conveyancer (whether before or after accepting instructions to provide a client with conveyancing services) knows, or ought reasonably to know, of circumstances that result, or may result, in a conflict between the interests of that client and the independent qualified conveyancer or an associate, the independent qualified conveyancer shall not act or, as the case may be, shall cease to act for that client.