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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1990/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1990/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/40",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1990",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Disclosure of documents etc.",
  "text": "(1) Any communication made to or by—\n(a) an independent conveyancing practitioner or an executry practitioner in the course of his ... acting as such for a client; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nshall in any action or proceedings in any court be protected from disclosure on the ground of confidentiality between client and professional legal adviser in like manner as if the practitioner had at all material times been a solicitor acting for the client.\n(2) Any enactment or instrument making special provision in relation to a solicitor or other legal representative as to the disclosure of information, or as to the production, seizure or removal of documents, with respect to which a claim to confidentiality between client and professional legal adviser could be maintained, shall, with any necessary modifications, have effect in relation to—\n(a) an independent conveyancing practitioner; and\n(b) an executry practitioner; ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nas it has effect in relation to a solicitor.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 22 substituted (15.8.2003) by Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4), s. 21(2), Sch. 4 para. 12(10)(a); S.S.I. 2003/384, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1)(a) repealed (15.8.2003) by Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4), s. 21(2), Sch. 4 para. 12(10)(b)(i); S.S.I. 2003/384, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 22(1)(b) and word repealed (15.8.2003) by Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4), s. 21(2), Sch. 4 para. 12(10)(b)(ii); S.S.I. 2003/384, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 22(1) substituted (15.8.2003) by Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4), s. 21(2), Sch. 4 para. 12(10)(b)(iii); S.S.I. 2003/384, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 22(2) inserted (15.8.2003) by Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4), s. 21(2), Sch. 4 para. 12(10)(c)(i); S.S.I. 2003/384, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 22(2)(c) and word repealed (15.8.2003) by Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 4), s. 21(2), Sch. 4 para. 12(10)(c)(ii); S.S.I. 2003/384, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 partly in force; s. 22 not in force at Royal Assent see 75(2); s. 22(1)(a)(2)(a)(b) in force at 1.3.1997 by S.I. 1996/2894, art. 3, Sch. and S.I. 1996/2966, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/40/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:55.706799+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."
}