UK Act of Parliament
1985
United Kingdom
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985
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Schedules
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After section 33 there shall be inserted the following section—...
In section 34 (rules as to professional practice, conduct and...
In section 35(1) (accounts rules) after the word “solicitors”, in...
In section 36 (interest on client’s money)—
In section 37 (accountant’s certificates)— (a) in subsection (2) after...
In section 38 (powers of Council where dishonesty alleged)—
In section 39 (Council’s powers where delay alleged)—
In section 40 (Council’s powers where failure to comply with...
In section 41 (appointment of judicial factor)—
In section 42 (distribution of sums in client bank account)—...
In section 42 (Guarantee Fund)— (a) in subsection (2) after...
In section 44 (professional indemnity)— (a) in subsection (1)—
In section 45 (safeguarding interests of clients of solicitors struck...
In section 47 (restriction on employing solicitor struck off or...
In section 49 (investigation by lay observer of Society’s treatment...
In section 51(2) (complaints to Discipline Tribunal) after the words...
In section 52(1) (procedure and powers of Discipline Tribunal) there...
In section 53 (powers of Discipline Tribunal)—
In section 54 (appeals by solicitors from decisions of the...
In section 60 (offence for notaries public to act for...
In section 61 (protection of banks)— (a) in each of...
In section 64 (service of notices) there shall be inserted...
In section 65(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “functions” there...
In Schedule 3 (The Scottish Solicitors’ Guarantee Fund)—
In Schedule 4 (constitution, procedure and powers of Tribunal)—
In section 34(4) (restriction on commissions for introduction of business)...
In section 6(3)(a) (exclusion of certain solicitors from giving legal...
In section 5(2) (definition of “the solicitor” for purposes of...
In section 1(2)(a) (disapplication of Act to practising solicitors and...
In section 745(3) and 778(3) of, and paragraph 14(5) of...
In section 32(2) (persons to whom offence of preparing certain...
In section 10 (order in which names of jurors are...
In section 58B(3) for the word “child’s” there shall be...
In section 41 (restriction on effect of reduction of certain...
In section 32(1) (power of Court of Session to regulate...
In section 33(4) (appointment of secretary of Sheriff Court Rules...
In section 35 (summary causes) after subsection (1) there shall...
In subsection (2) of section 1 (extended power of court...
In section 4 (names of dead and disqualified jurors not...
In section 9 (rectification of the register)—
At the end of section 12(3) (exclusion of indemnity) there...
In section 28 (application of section 1 of the Administration...
The entry in Schedule 2 relating to paragraph 4 of...
In section 56(2) (registration of housing association and Housing Corporation...
In subsection (5) of section 106 (compulsory entry to carry...
In section 10 the words from “Provided also” to the...
In Schedule 9 (savings and transitional provisions), at the end,...
In section 27(1) (interpretation) in the defintion of “matrimonial home”...
In Schedule 4, in paragraph 61(b) (amendments of the Representation...
In section 159 (litigiosity not to begin before date of...
In Schedule RR (form of notice of summons) after the...
In section 44 (limitation of effect of entries in Register...
Section 46 shall be renumbered as subsection (1) thereof and...
In section 21(2) (mode of provision of accommodation and maintenanqce...
Irritancy clauses etc. relating to monetary breaches of lease.
- Serve formal notice before terminating lease for late payment
Irritancy clauses
- Do not unreasonably terminate a lease for non-monetary breaches
Browse 53 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Limitation on use of property held on long lease not to apply to property held on certain renewable leases.
Power of sheriff to grant renewals of certain long leases.
Creation of real conditions in assignations of certain long leases.
Supplementary and transitional provisions relating to sections 4 and 5.
Interpretation of sections 4 to 6.
Rectification of defectively expressed documents.
Registration of order for rectification
Provisions supplementary to section 8: protection of other interest.
Negligent misrepresentation.
Amendment of Bills of Exchange Act 1882 as respects countermanded cheques.
Limitation of defamation and other actions.
Amendments of Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981.
Remit from Court of Session to sheriff.
Withdrawal of privilege against self–incrimination in certain proceedings relating to intellectual property.
Power of sheriff to order sheriff clerk to execute deeds relating to heritage.
Small claims.
Disclosure of names in certain proceedings.
Removal of prohibition of sheriffs’ principal and sheriffs’ accepting appointment to certain offices.
Additional court holidays.
Re-employment of retired judges
Replacement of general jury book by lists of men and women eligible for jury service.
Power to increase size of Children’s Panel Advisory Committees.
Amendment of provisions about detention of children.
Amendment of power to detain children in secure accommodation.
Requirement of children’s hearing for pre-adoptive supervision not to constitute making arrangements for adoption for purposes of Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978.
Child subject to supervision requirement to be regarded as in the care of the local authority for the purposes of his being freed for adoption under section 18 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978.
Reporter’s power to arrange review by children’s hearing of supervision requirement.
Interest on awards of compensation by Scottish Land Court.
Restriction of duty to record notice of cesser of conditions relating to croft.
Rules as to valuation of sheep stocks.
Establishment and disestablishment of district courts.
Power of Secretary of State to remove justices etc.
Provisions as to persons arrested in respect of terrorism.
Evudence in trials of certain sexual offences.
Evidence in replication.
Further provisions as to fines.
Penalties under food and drugs legislation.
Detention of young offenders.
Post-release supervision of service offenders.
Transfer of sheriff clerks and procurators fiscal.
Power of Lord Advocate and Secretary of State in relation to research into law.
Arrestment of National Savings Bank deposits.
Registration of divorces and declarators of nullity of marriage.
Amendments to Mental Health 9Scotland) Act 1984 as respects hospital orders.
Application of certain liquor licensing appeal to provisions to certain appeals under Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976.
Amendment of definition of “alcoholic liquor”.
Clarification of investment powers of Scottish Hospital Trust and Scottish Hospital Endowments Research Trust.
Power of Commissioner for Local Administration to investigate Scottish Special Housing Association and new town development corporations.
Amendment of enactments relating to solicitors.
Power to pay extra-parliamentary Commissioners for service on inquiries under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936.
Finance.
Amendment and repeal of enactments.
Citation, transitional provisions, commencement and extent.
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