{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/47",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Training regulations.",
  "text": "(1) The Society . . . may make regulations (in this Act referred to as “training regulations”) about education and training for persons seeking to be admitted or to practise as solicitors.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Training regulations—\n(a) may prescribe—\n(i) the education and training . . . to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors;\n(ii) any education or training to be undergone by persons who have been admitted as solicitors;\n(iii) the examinations or other tests to be undergone by persons seeking admission as solicitors or who have been admitted;\n(iv) the qualifications and reciprocal duties and responsibilities of persons undertaking to give education or training for the purposes of the regulations or undergoing such education or training; and\n(v) the circumstances in which . . . education or training under the regulations may be started or terminated;\n(b) may require persons who have been admitted as solicitors to hold practising certificates while they are undergoing education or training under the regulations;\n(c) may include provision for the charging of fees by the Society and the application of fees which the Society receives;\n(d) may make different provision for different classes of persons and different circumstances.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(a), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(2) repealed (1.4.1991) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20; S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(3)(a)(i) repealed (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(b)(i), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)(n)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(3)(a)(v) repealed (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(b)(ii), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)(n)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(3)(a)(v) inserted (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(b)(iii) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 2(4) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(c), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 2(5) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 4(c), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2 extended (22.5.2000) by S.I. 2000/1119, regs. 1, 37(3), Sch. 4 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/47/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:05.522324+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."
}