321.Paragraph 18 amends the provisions of the 1980 Act relating to the Council’s function of being the registrar of solicitors and the requirement to keep a roll of solicitors at their secretary’s office. The paragraph amends sections 7, 12A, 13, 24A, 60A and paragraphs 18 and 18A of schedule 4 of that Act to require the roll and registers to be available to members of the public, free of charge, by such electronic means as is considered appropriate. Sections 8 and 12B are amended to require enrolled solicitors and registered European lawyers, respectively, to provide contact details to the Council in the first instance and to inform the Council of any changes to these details. Schedule 2 is amended to enable the Council to remove a solicitor’s name from the roll where the solicitor has failed to comply with a training contract, and to enable the Council to contact the solicitor by means other than by writing.
322.Paragraph 19 amends sections 17 and 18 of the 1990 Act to require the registers of conveyancing and executry practitioners to be available to and searchable by members of the public, free of charge, by such electronic means as the Council consider appropriate, and also to enable a conveyancing practitioner who has been removed from the register to have their name restored to it.
Schedule 3 — Minor and Consequential Modifications of Enactments The roll and other registers