{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-75.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/582",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/75",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Regulations and rules",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Society may make regulations—\n(a) for the purpose of the due execution of those provisions;\n(b) with respect to any matter which under this Order may or is to be prescribed or is to be provided for by regulations;\nand regulations may contain such provisions as the Society may think proper for facilitating the due enforcement thereof.\n(1A) Before making regulations the Society shall consult the Legal Services Oversight Commissioner.\n(2) All regulations shall be made with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice.\n(3) The powers conferred by [ section 55 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 1978 c.23] on the Northern IrelandCourt of Judicature Rules Committee to make rules of court shall be exercisable in relation to any function conferred on the Lord Chief Justice by this Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 75(1A) inserted (1.9.2025) by Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 14), ss. 3(6), 55; S.R. 2025/143, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1978 c.23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 75(3) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nia/2011/24",
      "affecting_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/582/article/75",
    "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."
}