{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-acts-1974-commencement-order-1975/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/534",
  "legislation_title": "The Solicitors Acts 1974 (Commencement) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-acts-1974-commencement-order-1975",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order brings into force on 1st May 1975—\n(a) those provisions of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1974 not already in force;\n(b) immediately thereafter, the Solicitors Act 1974.\nThe principal provisions of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1974 not already in force are section 5 (removal of name from roll at solicitor's request), section 8 and Schedule 1 (intervention in solicitor's practice), section 9(1) (Compensation Fund), sections 11 and 12 (Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal) and section 16 (banks for clients' money).\nThe Solicitors Act 1974 consolidates the whole of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1974, together with the Solicitors Acts 1957 to 1965 and certain other enactments relating to solicitors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/534/note",
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  "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."
}