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Solicitors Act 1934

As Enacted Cited authorities 2 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1934 c. 45
Year1934


Solicitors Act, 1934

(24 & 25 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 45.

An Act to prohibit bodies corporate from purporting to act as solicitors.

[31st July 1934]

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:—

S-1 Application of penal provisions to body corporate.

1 Application of penal provisions to body corporate.

(1) If any act is done by a body corporate or by any director, officer, or servant thereof, of such a nature or in such a manner as to be calculated to imply that the body corporate is qualified, or recognised by law as qualified, to act as a solicitor, the body corporate shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds for each such offence, and, in the case of an act done by a director, officer, or servant of the corporation, he also shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for each such offence.

(2) For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that in sections forty-five, forty-seven, forty-eight and forty-nine, and in subsection (1) of section fifty-one of the Solicitors Act 1932 and in sections thirty-six, thirty-seven and thirty-nine of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1933 (which provisions prohibit the doing of certain acts by and on behalf of unqualified practitioners) references to unqualified persons and references to persons include references to bodies corporate.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to Scotland.

S-2 Short title, construction and extent.

2 Short title, construction and extent.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Solicitors Act, 1934 ; and this Act, as it applies to England, and the Solicitors Acts 1932 and 1933 shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Solicitors Acts 1932 to 1934; and this Act, as it applies to Scotland, and the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1933 shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Solicitors (Scotland) Acts 1933 and 1934.

(2) This Act shall...

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