{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-solicitors-discipline-tribunal-increase-of-maximum-fine-order-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-solicitors-discipline-tribunal-increase-of-maximum-fine-order-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/333",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (Increase of Maximum Fine) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-solicitors-discipline-tribunal-increase-of-maximum-fine-order-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL PROFESSION\nMade 26th February 1987\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1987\nComing into force 1st April 1987\nWhereas it appears to the Secretary of State that there has been a change in the value of money since 1980;\nAnd whereas the sum substituted by this Order for the sum specified in section 53(2)(c) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 appears to him to be justified by that change:\nNow therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 53(8) of that Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 46; section 53(2)(c) was amended by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55), section 24(a)(i) and by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73), Schedule 1, part I, paragraph 28(b); section 53(8) was added by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980, section 24(a)(ii)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/333/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:31:33.530240+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."
}