{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/46",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Council’s duty to supply lists of solicitors holding practising certificates.",
  "text": "(1) The Council shall send a list of all solicitors holding practising certificates for the practice year then current—\n(a) to the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland; . . .\n(ab) to the Principal Clerk of Session;\n(b) to each sheriff clerk;\nas soon as practicable after 1st December in each year.\n(2) The Council shall send a list of all solicitors who have rights of audience in—\n(a) the Court of Session, to—\n(i) the Principal Clerk of Session;\n(ii) the Supreme Court;\n(iii) the Registrar to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;\nand\n(b) the High Court of Justiciary, to the Principal Clerk of Justiciary,\nas soon as practicable after 1st December in each year; and where, by virtue of an order under section 53(2)(ba), . . . or 55(1)(ba) or (bb), a solicitor’s right of audience in any of those courts is suspended or revoked, the Council shall forthwith inform the persons mentioned in this subsection of that fact.\n(3) The Council shall notfiy those persons to whom they have sent lists under this section of any changes in those lists.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 20(1)(a) repealed (3.6.1991) by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40, SIF 76:2), s. 74, Sch. 9; S.I. 1991/1252, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 20(1)(ab) inserted (3.6.1991) by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40, SIF 76:2), s. 74, Sch. 8 Pt. II para. 29(4)(a); S.I. 1991/1252, art. 3, Sch.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 20(2) substituted (3.6.1991) by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40, SIF 76:2), s. 74, Sch. 8 Pt. II para. 29(4)(b); S.I. 1991/1252, art. 3, Sch.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 20(2)(a)(ii) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40, 148, Sch. 9 para. 32(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 20(2) repealed (1.10.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 195, 210, 211, Sch. 20 para. 1(4), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/1436, art. 3 (as amended by S.I. 2008/1591)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 20(2) inserted (1.10.2008) by Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 5), ss. 81, 82, Sch. 5 para. 1(4) (with s. 77); S.S.I. 2008/311, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "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/20",
    "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."
}