{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-33D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-33D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/46",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/33D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33D",
  "heading": "Practice rules relating to law centres, citizens advice bodies and charities",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies to any rule made under section 34 that prohibits or unduly restricts the—\n(a) involvement of solicitors in or with, or employment of solicitors by, law centres, citizens advice bodies or charities, or\n(b) provision of legal services by law centres, citizens advice bodies or charities.\n(2) The rule is of no effect in so far as it does so (and for this purpose it is immaterial when the rule was made).\n(3) The reference in subsection (1)(a) to solicitors does not include a solicitor who is disqualified from practice by reason of having been—\n(a) struck off (or removed from) the roll, or\n(b) suspended from practice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 33D inserted (5.3.2026) by Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 8), ss. 89(5), 103(3); S.S.I. 2026/96, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/46/section/33D",
    "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."
}