Part 5 – Miscellaneous Regulatory and investigatory powers Section 208: Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal: powers to fine in cases relating to economic crime
This section amends section 53 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980, to remove the SSDT’s financial penalty limit for disciplinary matters relating to economic crime.
	"Economic crime" is defined with reference to Section 193 of the Act. It includes offences listed in Schedule 11, ancillary offences and equivalent offences overseas. The offences include fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing and an offence under regulations made under section 1 of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.