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SRA Indemnity Insurance Rules
RELs
The provisions contained in annex 2 to these rules apply to an authorised body that has at least one principal who is an REL.
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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 Authorisation of Firms Rules
Effect of authorisation
If you are a recognised body or a recognised sole practice authorised by the SRA you are entitled to carry on: all reserved legal activities except notarial activities; and immigration work. If you are a licensed body you are entitled to carry on the activities set out in rule 5.1, in accordance with the terms of your licence. An authorised body may only carry on a reserved legal activity...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Restrictions on services provided by a recognised body or recognised sole practice
If you are a recognised body or recognised sole practice, your business may consist only of the provision of: professional services of the sort provided by individuals practising as solicitors and/or lawyers of other jurisdictions; and the services set out in annex 2 (whether or not they are also included in paragraph (a)), and if you have a notary public as a manager or employee, then...
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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
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
Restrictions on employment and remuneration of certain individuals
An authorised body must not employ or remunerate, or permit to be a manager, owner or interest holder of the body, a person: who is subject to an order under section 43 of the SA, without the SRA's written permission; whose name has been struck off the roll, or who is suspended from practising as a solicitor, without the SRA's written permission; in respect of whom there is a direction in...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Apportionment of periodical fees on succession
An authorised body which: has taken over the whole or a part of one or more authorised bodies; or has split or ceded part of its practice to another authorised body and wishes the SRA to take this into account in determining its periodical fee, must within 28 days of the change taking place deliver to the SRA a notice in the prescribed form.
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Restrictions on services provided by a recognised body or recognised sole practice
If you are a recognised body or recognised sole practice, your business may consist only of the provision of: professional services of the sort provided by individuals practising as solicitors and/or lawyers of other jurisdictions; and the services set out in annex 2 (whether or not they are also included in paragraph (a)), and if you have a notary public as a manager or employee, then...
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