Section 18 Suspension of practising certificates.

in pursuance of the F1Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, a solicitor is, by reason of mental disorder, F2detained in hospitalF3. . .;

a guardian is appointed to a solicitor under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4);

the estate of the solicitor is sequestrated;

a solicitor grants a trust deed for behoof of creditors;

a judicial factor is appointed on the estate of the solicitor under section 41;

has been convicted of an offence involving dishonesty, or

in respect of an offence, has been—

an administration or winding up order, or an appointment of a provisional liquidator, liquidator, receiver or judicial factor has been made in relation to F7the incorporated practice an authorised legal business; or

a resolution has been passed for the voluntary winding-up of F8an incorporated practice an authorised legal business (other than a resolution passed solely for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation of the F9incorporated practice with another incorporated practice authorised legal business with another authorised legal business),

paragraph (a) of subsection (1A), the administrator, provisional liquidator, liquidator, receiver or, as the case may be, judicial factor appointed in relation to the F14incorporated practice authorised legal business;

paragraph (b) of subsection (1A), the F15incorporated practice authorised legal business