{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-80.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/47",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974",
  "path": "section/80",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Powers to act on behalf of Society.",
  "text": "(1) Anything authorised or required to be done by the Society under or in pursuance of this Act or any other enactment (or of any instrument made under this Act or any other enactment) may be done on behalf of the Society by the Council; and the power to delegate functions conferred by section 79 shall include power to delegate functions exercisable by the Council by virtue of this subsection.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In any proceedings a document purporting to be certified by the Secretary of the Society as a copy of a resolution passed by the Council or a committee of the Council or sub–committee on a specified date shall be evidence that that resolution was duly passed by the Council , committee or sub–committee on that date.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 80(1) substituted (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 72(a) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 125(3), Sch. 18 para. 16(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 80(2) repealed (31.3.2009) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 72(b), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(b)(i)(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 125(3), Sch. 18 para. 16(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 125(3), Sch. 18 para. 16(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/47/section/80",
    "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."
}