Solicitors Act 1933
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1933 c. 24 |
| Year | 1933 |
Solicitors Act, 1933.
(23 & 24 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 24.
An Act to amend the law relating to solicitors by providing for the making and enforcement of rules as to the keeping of accounts for clients' moneys and other matters of professional conduct.
[28th June 1933]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Council of Law Society to make rules as to certain matters.
1. The Council of the Law Society shall make rules—
and may, if they see fit, make rules for regulating in respect of any other matter the professional practice, conduct, and discipline of solicitors:
Provided that rules made under this section shall not come into operation until they have been approved by the Master of the Rolls.
2 Consequences of failure to comply with rules.
(1) If a solicitor fails to comply with any of the rules made under the preceding section, any person may make a complaint in respect of that failure to the disciplinary committee.
(2) The provisions of Part I of the Solicitors Act, 1932, shall apply in relation to complaints under this section as they apply in relation to applications to the committee under the said Part I:
Provided that in addition to the powers conferred on the committee by subsection (2) of section five of the said Act the committee and, upon appeal, the High Court shall have power to impose on the solicitor a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, and any penalty so imposed shall be forfeit to His Majesty.
3 Discretion of Registrar to refuse practising certificate in certain cases.
3. Section thirty-eight of the Solicitors Act, 1932, (which gives a discretion to the Registrar of Solicitors to refuse to issue certificates in special cases) shall, in addition to the cases mentioned therein, apply to the case where a solicitor applies for a certificate to practise without having paid any penalty imposed upon him under the last preceding section, or any costs ordered to be paid by him under that section or under Part I of the Solicitors Act, 1932.
4 Saving for certain public officers.
(1) In the case of a solicitor employed as a public officer, rules made under paragraph (a ) or paragraph (b ) of section one of this Act shall not apply to him so far as regards moneys received, held, or paid by him in the course of his employment as such public officer.
(2) In this section the expression ‘public officer’ means an officer whose remuneration is defrayed out of—
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