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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2797",
  "legislation_title": "The Licensed Conveyancers' Discipline and Appeals Committee (Procedure) Rules Approval Order 2001",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires:—\n“the Act” means the Administration of Justice Act 1985;\n“the 1990 Act” means the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;\n“appellant” means a person appealing to the Committee under section 29 of the Act (appeals from decision of Council in relation to licences) or, as the case may be, paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 to the Act (appeals against decision of Council in relation to grant of recognition);\n“Chairman” means the Chairman or acting Chairman of the Committee;\n“the Committee” means the Discipline and Appeals Committee established under section 25(1) of the Act;\n“the complainant” means the person whose complaint has been referred to the Committee by the Investigating Committee under section 24(1)(b) of or paragraph 3(1)(b) of Schedule 6 to the Act or who has made a complaint directly to the Committee under paragraph 17(1) of Schedule 8 to the 1990 Act;\n“the Council” means the Council for Licensed Conveyancers;\n“the Director” means the Director of the Council or any person appointed by the Council temporarily to perform the duties of that office;\n“the Investigating Committee” means the committee established under section 24 of the Act;\n“the Legal Assessor” means a person appointed under paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Act;\n“licensed conveyancer”—\n(a) means a person who holds a licence in force under Part II of the Act, and\n(b) in relation to a particular allegation or complaint, includes a person who held such a licence at the time when the conduct to which the allegation or complaint relates took place;\n“party” has the meaning at paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 4 to the Act.\n“recognised body”—\n(a) means a body for the time being recognised under section 32 of the Act, and\n(b) in relation to a particular allegation or complaint, includes a body corporate which was so recognised at the time when the conduct to which the allegation or complaint relates took place;\n“respondent” means—\n(a) in the case of an allegation or complaint referred to the Committee under section 24 of, or paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to, the Act or a complaint made under paragraph 17 of Schedule 8 to the 1990 Act:—\n(i) the licensed conveyancer or recognised body about whom the allegation is made or the complaint is made or treated as made, and\n(ii) in any case where the recognition of a recognised body may be revoked under paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the Act and the Chairman or Committee so direct, includes the recognised body in question;\n(b) in the case of an appeal under section 29 of, or paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 to the Act, the Council;\n(c) in the case of an application under section 27 or 28(2) of, or paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 6, to the Act, the Council;\n(d) in the case of a reference under rule 4, the person or recognised body whose licence or recognition may be revoked;\n“the Solicitor”, in relation to any function under these Rules, means a solicitor authorised by the Council to act on its behalf for the purposes of that function and, in relation to a hearing, includes counsel instructed to act on the Council’s behalf.\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1978 applies to these Rules as it applies to an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 3 was amended by paragraph 64 of Schedule 10 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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