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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007/section-62",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/5",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Notaries public to be practising solicitors",
  "text": "(1) The 1980 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 57(2), after “solicitor” insert “ qualified to practise in accordance with section 4 ”.\n(3) In section 58, after subsection (4) insert—\n“(5) Where a person who is a solicitor and a notary public no longer has in force a practising certificate, the Council shall forthwith remove the person's name from the register of notaries public.\n(6) If the person mentioned in subsection (5) becomes qualified to practise as a solicitor in accordance with section 4, the Council shall restore the person's name to the register of notaries public.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/5/section/62",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:01.165335+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."
}