{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-73.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/582",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/73",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Cessation and suspension of membership of Society, etc.",
  "text": "(1) If the name of a solicitor who is a member of the Society is removed from or struck off the roll that solicitor shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Society.\n(2) A member of the Society who is suspended from practising as a solicitor shall not be entitled during the period of his supension to any of the rights or privileges of membership of the Society.\n(3) A solicitor shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights or privileges of membership of the Society during any year or part of a year for which his subscription to the Society has not been paid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 73 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)(rr)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Art. 73(1) applied ( with modifications) (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(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/582/article/73",
    "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."
}