{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-28.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/28",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 53 (powers of Discipline Tribunal)—\n(a) in subsection (1) there shall be inserted at the end—\n“; or\n(c) an incorporated practice has been convicted by any court of an offence, which conviction the Tribunal is satisfied renders it unsuitable to continue to be recognised under section 34(1A); or\n(d) after holding an inquiry into a complaint, the Tribunal is satisfied that an incorporated practice has failed to comply with any provision of this Act or of rules made under this Act applicable to it.”.\n(b) in subsection (2) (powers of Discipline Tribunal)—\n(i) in paragraphs (c) and (d) after the word “solicitor” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, the incorporated practice ”.\n(ii) in paragraph (e) after the word “him” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, it ”.\n(iii) after paragraph (e) there shall be added the following—\n“or\n(f) order that the recognition under section 34(1A) of the incorporated practice be revoked”.\n(c) after subsection (6) (effective date of striking off or suspension of solicitor) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(6A) Where the Tribunal order that the recognition under section 34(1A) of an incorporated practice be revoked, the Tribunal shall direct that the order shall take effect on such date as the Tribunal specifies, being a date not earlier than 60 days after its order is intimated to the incorporated practice, and such an order shall take effect accordingly.”.\n(d) in subsection (7) after the word “(6)” there shall be inserted the words “ or (6A) ” and for the words “that subsection” there shall be substituted the words “ subsection (6) or, as the case may be, subsection (6A) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/73/schedule/1/paragraph/28",
    "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."
}