SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Use of intermediaries
You must not use, or propose to use, the services of another person consisting of: insurance distribution; reinsurance distribution; insurance distribution activity; or home finance mediation activity, unless the person: has permission to carry on the activity under Part 4A FSMA; is permitted to carry on the activity under an exemption made in or under FSMA, to the general prohibition set out...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Treating complaints fairly
Notwithstanding your complaints handling obligations in the SRA Code of Conduct for Firms, you must have in place and operate appropriate and effective procedures for registering and responding to complaints from a person who is not a client.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Remuneration disclosure
In good time before the conclusion of the initial contract of insurance and if necessary, on its amendment or renewal, you must provide the client with information: on the nature of the remuneration received in relation to the contract of insurance; about whether in relation to the contract you work on the basis of: a fee, that is remuneration paid directly by the client; a commission of any...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Regulated credit agreements
Where you carry on a credit-related regulated financial services activity involving a proposed regulated credit agreement, you must: provide adequate explanations to the client in order to enable the client to assess whether the proposed regulated credit agreement is suitable to the client's needs and financial situation; and when providing such explanations, comply with the requirements of...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Appropriation of payments
Where you are entitled to payments from the same client in respect of two or more regulated credit agreements, you must allow the client to put any payments made, in respect of those agreements, towards the satisfaction of the sum due under any one or more of the agreements in such proportions as the client thinks fit.
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations
The roll and registers
The SRA shall keep in electronic form: the roll; a register of all solicitors who hold practising certificates; the register of European lawyers; the register of foreign lawyers; the register of Swiss lawyers; and a register of authorised bodies.
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations
Information in respect of authorised bodies
The register of authorised bodies under regulation 1.1(e) shall contain the following information in respect of each body included within it: the name under which the body is authorised; the body's authorisation number; the body's main practising address in the UK; all the body's other practising addresses including addresses of its overseas practices; any previous name under which the body...
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SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations
General provisions
The SRA may include in the roll or registers such other prescribed information it considers conducive to help it meet the regulatory objectives. The SRA shall keep and publish lists of: orders made by the Tribunal and disciplinary or regulatory decisions made under the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules, in respect of individuals who are not solicitors, RELs, RFLs or RSLs...
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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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