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Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 263 Application of Part 20 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to European lawyers

(1) Schedule 2 to the European Communities (Lawyer's Practice) (Scotland) Regulations (application, extension and modification of enactments to registered European lawyers) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph 3 of Part II substitute -

"3. For the purposes of Part 20 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (provision of financial services by members of the professions), a registered European lawyer and any partner shall be treated as -

(a) a member of the profession in relation to which the Law Society of Scotland [The Law Society of Scotland is a designated professional body for the purposes of Part 20: S.I. 2001/1226.] is established; and

(b) as subject to the rules of the Law Society of Scotland.".

(3) Paragraph 5 of Part II is revoked.