{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/582",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Qualifications for practising as solicitor",
  "text": "A person shall not be qualified to act as a solicitor unless—\n(a) he has been admitted as a solicitor; and\n(b) his name is on the roll; and\n(c) he has in force a certificate issued by the registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Part authorising him to practise as a solicitor (in this Order referred to as a “practising certificate”);\n. . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1989 NI 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/582/article/4",
    "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."
}