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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Modification of terms and conditions
The SRA may at any time, extend, revoke or vary any terms or conditions on a body's authorisation, imposed in accordance with rule 3 or otherwise, either on the application of the authorised body or on the SRA's own initiative.
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Information return and notification events
An authorised body must complete and deliver to the SRA an annual return by the date and in the form prescribed.
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Duration of authorisation
A body's authorisation takes effect from the date the certificate of authorisation is issued to it by the SRA. A body's authorisation shall cease to have effect: subject to Part 5, if the body ceases to exist; or if the body is a licensed body and is issued with a licence by another approved regulator. The SRA may revoke or suspend a body's authorisation, if: it is satisfied that the...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Annex 2: Professional services
The professional services referred to in rule 6.1(b) are: Alternative dispute resolution. Financial services. Estate agency. Management consultancy. Company secretarial services. Other professional and specialist business support services including human resources, recruitment, systems support, outsourcing, transcription and translating. Acting as a parliamentary agent. Practising as a lawyer...
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SRA Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules
Application
These rules apply where the SRA is making a decision as to whether it is satisfied regarding your character and suitability: on early assessment under regulation 5.2 of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations; at admission or restoration to the roll under regulations 1.1, 3.1, 3A.1, 3F.1, 4.1, 4.2 and 5.9 of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations; on approval as an...
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SRA Indemnity Fund (Enactment) Rules
Commencement and application
The Solicitors' Indemnity Rules 1987 as amended from time to time shall be further amended with effect from 1 October 2023 and shall continue in force thereafter in the form annexed hereto in which form they may be known as the SRA Indemnity Fund Rules. The Solicitors' Indemnity (Incorporated Practice) Rules 1991 as amended from time to time shall continue in force only in respect of the...
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations
Publication of information
The SRA shall publish all entries on the roll or registers, except for any address included under regulation 2.1(h). If the SRA considers that it would be in the public interest to do so, it may withhold from publication any or all of the information subject to publication under regulation 5.1. The SRA may publish such further information or classes of information as it may consider in the...
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Identifying beneficial entitlements
The SRA will create a reconciled list or a best list in respect of statutory trust monies held, using the information which it has available. In creating a reconciled list or a best list, any sums of money which are identified within a statutory trust account as being payments on account of fees or unpaid disbursements, or which are equivalent to the costs incurred in a matter to which the...
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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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