{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-92",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-92.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/8",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/92",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "92",
  "heading": "Offence of pretending to be a member of Faculty of Advocates",
  "text": "(1) A person who is not a member of the Faculty of Advocates commits an offence if the person without reasonable excuse—\n(a) takes or uses a name, title, addition or description implying that the person is a member of the Faculty of Advocates,\n(b) otherwise pretends to be a member of the Faculty of Advocates.\n(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), a person is a member of the Faculty of Advocates if the person is entered in the register maintained by the Faculty of Advocates under section 16.\n(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 92 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 103(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/8/section/92",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:57.670595+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."
}