Sch 16 para 31
(1) Section 31 (rules as to professional practice, conduct and discipline) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (1)— (a) for “Council may, if they think fit,” substitute “ Society may ” , (b) omit “, with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls,”, (c) after “conduct” insert “ , fitness to practise ” , (d) for “Council” (in the second place) substitute “ Society ” , and (e) after “being” insert “ , or have been, ” . (3) After that subsection insert— (1A) The powers conferred on the Society by subsection (1) include power to make, in relation to solicitors, provision of a kind which the Society would be prohibited from making but for section 157(5)(c) of the Legal Services Act 2007 (exception from prohibition on approved regulators making provision for redress). (4) Omit subsections (3) and (4).