{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/46",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Keeping the roll.",
  "text": "(1) The Council shall continue to be the registrar of solicitors and shall keep at the office of their secretary a roll of solicitors (in this Act referred to as “the roll”).\n(2) The roll shall consist of the names in alphabetical order of all solicitors entered on it in accordance with section 8.\n(2A) The roll is also to record against the name of each enrolled solicitor the address of the place of business of that solicitor (as given under subsection (2) of that section).\n(3) Any person may inspect the roll during office hours without payment.\n(4) Schedule 2 (powers of Council in relation to roll of solicitors) shall have effect.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(2A) inserted (1.5.2011) by Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), ss. 134(1), 150(2); S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 7(4) added by Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 42, SIF 76:2), s. 6(1), Sch. 1 para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "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/7",
    "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."
}