{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/73",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 40 (Council’s powers where failure to comply with accounts rules etc.)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) after the word “solicitor”, where first occurring, there shall be inserted the words “ or incorporated practice ”;\n(ii) after the word “solicitor”, where secondly and thirdly occurring, there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, incorporated practice ”;\n(iii) after the word “his” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, its ”;\n(iv) after the word “section”, where lastly occurring, there shall be inserted “ (a) ”;\n(v) for the words “and the certificate” there shall be substituted the following\n“; or, as the case may be—\n(b) withdraw the practising certificate or certificates of any or all of the solicitors who are directors of the incorporated practice,\nand a certificate so withdrawn ”;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) after the word “he” there shall be inserted the words “ or as the case may be, by the incorporated practice that it ”;\n(ii) after the word “solicitor” where secondly occurring, there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, the incorporated practice ”,\n(iii) for the words from “and” onward there shall be substituted the words “ or solicitors concerned and shall restore to him or them any practising certificate or certificates held by him or them for the practice year then current. ”;\n(c) in subsection (3) for the word “the”, where secondly occurring, there shall be substituted the word “ a ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/73/schedule/1/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:40.745801+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."
}