{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-12C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-12C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/46",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/12C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12C",
  "heading": "Removal of name from register on request",
  "text": "(1) A registered European lawyer who wishes his name, or any annotation made against his name under section 25A(3), to be removed from the register may make an application to the Council in that behalf, and the Council shall... remove the name of that solicitor, or, as the case may be, the annotation against his name, from the register.\n(2) But the Council are required to remove the name or annotation only if they are satisfied that—\n(a) the solicitor has made adequate arrangements with respect to the business which the solicitor then has in hand, and\n(b) it is otherwise appropriate to do so.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 12A-12D inserted (22.5.2000) by S.S.I. 2000/121, regs. 1(1), 37(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 12A-12D inserted (22.5.2000) by S.S.I. 2000/121, regs. 1(1), 37(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 12C renumbered as s. 12C(1) (1.5.2011) by Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), ss. 135(2)(a), 150(2); S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 12C(1) repealed (1.5.2011) by Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), ss. 135(2)(b), 150(2); S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 12C(2) inserted (1.5.2011) by Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), ss. 135(2)(c), 150(2); S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/46/section/12C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:15.254365+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."
}