{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1980/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1980/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/55",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Solicitors’ clients’ accounts.",
  "text": "In the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980—\n(a) in section 36(1) (interest on client’s money)—\n(i) the word “either” shall cease to have effect;\n(ii) after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(aa) to keep in—\n(i) a deposit or share account with a designated building society; or\n(ii) an account showing sums on loan to a local authority,\nbeing in either case an account kept by the solicitor in his own name for a specified client, money so received; or”; and\n(iii) in paragraph (b) after the words “paragraph (a)”, there shall be inserted the words “ or (aa) ”;\n(b) in section 42(3) (exceptions to provisions regarding distribution of sums in client’s bank account), at the end there shall be added the words\n“; nor shall any regard be had for such purposes to any—\n(a) deposit or share account with a designated building society; or\n(b) account showing sums on loan to a local authority,\nbeing in either case an account kept by the solicitor in his own name for a specified client.”; and\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 25(c) repealed by Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 42), s. 6(2)(3), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 23, 25, 28 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/55/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:07.643842+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}