{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-33.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/582",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Regulations as to keeping of accounts by solicitors",
  "text": "(1) The Society shall as soon as practicable make regulations—\n(a) as to the opening and keeping by solicitors of accounts at banks or with building societies\n(i) for clients' money;\n(ii) for money comprised in controlled trusts;\n(b) as to the keeping by solicitors of accounts containing particulars and information as to money received, held or paid by them—\n(i) for or on account of their clients;\n(ii) for or on account of any such trust as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( a);\n(c) as to the investment in trustee investments of the money of any such trust as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( a);\n(d) empowering the Society to take such action and collect such evidence as may be necessary to enable them to ascertain whether or not the regulations are being complied with.\n(2) If a solicitor contravenes any regulation made under this Article any person may make a complaint in respect of that contravention to the Tribunal.\n(3) Regulations made under paragraph (1)( a) to ( c) shall not apply to—\n(a) a solicitor acting in the course of his employment as a public officer; or\n(b) a solicitor who holds an office under any local authority or statutory undertakers and who does not engage in private practice as a solicitor;\nand such regulations shall not apply to a solicitor who holds an office to which sub-paragraph ( b) applies and who is engaged in private practice as a solicitor, except so far as regards money received, held or paid by him in the course of that private practice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1989 NI 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2001 c. 14 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 33 applied (1.4.2025) by The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/70), regs. 1, 5(2)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/582/article/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:52.222859+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."
}