SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Minimum level of funds
The SRA may set a minimum level of funds to which a beneficiary may be entitled within a statutory trust account below which it will not attempt to identify or locate potential beneficiaries on the basis that, in the opinion of the SRA, it would be unreasonable or disproportionate to do so. The level in rule 3.1 applies to the sum identified as relating to a particular beneficiary, after the...
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Claimants to money
Unless the SRA agrees otherwise, every claimant must submit to the SRA a claim in the prescribed form accompanied by any documentation and other evidence as may be required by the SRA, and which must include, if requested by the SRA, a statement of truth.
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Interim payments
The SRA may make an interim payment to a beneficiary before the full distribution of funds in a statutory trust account takes place provided that the SRA is satisfied that the payment can be made without prejudicing other claims to those funds.
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Holding statutory trust monies
The SRA shall place all statutory trust monies in an identifiable statutory trust account. All interest earned on the funds held in any statutory trust account shall be paid into that account.
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Details of participating insurer
This rule is in addition to any obligations imposed on the authorised body under the Provision of Services Regulations 2009. If a claimant asserts a claim against an authorised body or any person insured under that authorised body's policy, and the claim relates to any matter within the scope of cover of the MTC, the authorised body, and any person who is at the relevant time a principal in...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Obligation to effect insurance
An authorised body carrying on a practice during any indemnity period beginning on or after 25 November 2019 must take out and maintain qualifying insurance under these rules with a participating insurer. In respect of its obligation under rule 2.1, an authorised body must obtain a policy of qualifying insurance prior to the expiry of the policy period, that provides cover incepting on and...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Use of information
Each authorised body must notify the SRA (or such person as the SRA may notify to the authorised body from time to time) and its participating insurer in writing as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event no later than five business days after the date on which: the authorised body enters an extended policy period; the authorised body has entered the cessation period; and where the...
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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
Special provisions for RELs
If: one or more of the principals of an insured firm are RELs who claim that professional indemnity insurance, or a professional indemnity fund, under their home professional rules provides the insured firm's practice with professional indemnity cover in all respects equivalent in its conditions and extent to that which would be provided under the MTC (Full Home State Cover); no more than 25%...
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SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
Confidentiality and disclosure
You keep the affairs of current and former clients confidential unless disclosure is required or permitted by law or the client consents. Any individual who is acting for a client on a matter makes the client aware of all information material to the matter of which the individual has knowledge except when: the disclosure of the information is prohibited by legal restrictions imposed in the...
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