The Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Provisions on Abolition) Order 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/3296
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This order may be cited as the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Provisions on Abolition) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 31st December 1999.

(2) In this Order:

“ ACLEC ” means the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct;

“final period” means the period from 1st April 1999 to 31st December 1999.

Section 2 Provisions on the abolition of ACLEC

(1) Immediately before section 35(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 comes into force , all the property, rights and liabilities of ACLEC shall, by virtue of this Order, be transferred to the Lord Chancellor.

(2) In paragraph (1), “property” shall, without limitation, include all assets appearing in ACLEC’s asset register immediately before section 35(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 comes into force.

Section 3 Provisions on the abolition of ACLEC

The Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor or a person nominated by him shall, as soon as possible after 31st December 1999, prepare a statement of ACLEC’s accounts for the final period; and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 shall apply to that statement and those accounts as if it were still in force, and as if the final period were a financial year for the purposes of that paragraph.