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SRA Handbook

Authorised training providers

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Regulation 10: Authorised training providers

10.1

Only an authorised training provider may provide recognised training to trainee solicitors.

10.2

To provide recognised training an authorised training provider must:

(a)

meet the requirements for authorisation set out in regulation 11;

(b)

have a training principal who meets the requirements of regulation 13, and notify us in the prescribed form;

(c)

meet the requirements for recognised training set out in regulation 12;

(d)

notify us in the prescribed form of any individual who will commence a period of recognised training with the authorised training provider;

(e)

pay the fees and expenses for their trainees' first attempt at the PSC, and

(f)

pay their trainees:

(i)

until 31 July 2014, at least the minimum salary prescribed by us;

(ii)

from 1 August 2014, at least the single hourly rate of the national minimum wage specified in regulation 11 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999.