56 Orders as to remuneration for non-contentious business
Solicitors Act 1974 (1974 c 47) | Legislation

Part III Remuneration of Solicitors

Non-contentious business

56  Orders as to remuneration for non-contentious business

(1)     For the purposes of this section there shall be a committee consisting of the following persons—

(a)     the [Lord Chancellor];

(b)     the Lord Chief Justice;

(c)     the Master of the Rolls;

(d)     the President of the Society;

[(da)     a member of the Legal Services Board nominated by that Board;]

(e)     a solicitor, being the president of a local law society, nominated by the [Lord Chancellor] to serve on the committee during his tenure of office as president; and

(f)     for the purpose only of prescribing and regulating the remuneration of solicitors in respect of business done under the [Land Registration Act 2002], the Chief Land Registrar appointed under that Act.

(2)     The committee, or any three members of the committee [(the Lord Chancellor being one), may make general orders prescribing the

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