{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/46",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Offence for solicitors who are disqualified to seek employment without informing employer.",
  "text": "Any person who—\n(a) has been struck off the roll; or\n(b) suspended from practice as a solicitor ; or\n(c) has had his registration as a registered European lawyer withdrawn; or\n(d) has been suspended from practice as a registered European lawyer; or\n(e) has had his registration as a registered foreign lawyer withdrawn; or\n(f) has been suspended from practice as a registered foreign lawyer,\nand while so disqualified from practice seeks or accepts employment by a solicitor in connection with that solicitors practice or by an incorporated practiceor multi-national practice an authorised legal business without previously informing him or, as the case may be, it that he is so disqualified, shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 28(c)(d) and the preceding word “or” inserted (22.5.2000) by S.S.I. 2000/121, regs. 1(1), 37(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 28(e)(f) and preceding word inserted (1.10.2004) by The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (Foreign Lawyers and Multi-national Practices) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/383), reg. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 28 substituted (1.7.2026 for specified purposes) by Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 8), s. 103(3), sch. 1 para. 12(2)(a); S.S.I. 2026/96, reg. 2(3)(4), sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73, SIF 76:2), s. 56, Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 28 inserted (1.10.2004) by The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (Foreign Lawyers and Multi-national Practices) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/383), reg. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 28 repealed (1.7.2026 for specified purposes) by Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 8), s. 103(3), sch. 1 para. 12(2)(b); S.S.I. 2026/96, reg. 2(3)(4), sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words inserted by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73, SIF 76:2), s. 56, Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 6(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/46/section/28",
    "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."
}