Legal Services Bill [HL]

moved Amendments Nos. 492C and 492D: 492C: Schedule 16, page 244, line 35, leave out ““requiring other applications under the rules”” and insert ““for the manner and form in which other applications under the rules are to be made, and requiring such applications”” 492D: Schedule 16, page 245, line 28, after ““““(2A)”” insert— ““Where the Society decides to recognise a body under this section it must grant that recognition subject to one or more conditions if— (a) the case is of a kind prescribed for the purposes of this section by rules made by the Society, and (b) the Society considers that it is in the public interest to do so. (2B) At any time while a body is recognised under this section the Society may, in such circumstances as may be prescribed, direct that the body’s recognition is to have effect subject to such conditions as the Society may think fit. ““Prescribed”” means prescribed by rules made by the Society. (2C) The conditions which may be imposed under subsection (2A) or (2B) include— (a) conditions requiring the body to take specified steps that will, in the opinion of the Society, be conducive to the carrying on by the body of an efficient business; (b) conditions which prohibit the body from taking any specified steps except with the approval of the Society. ““Specified”” means specified in the condition. (2D) Rules made by the Society may make provision about when conditions imposed under this section take effect (including provision conferring power on the Society to direct that a condition is not to have effect until the conclusion of any appeal in relation to it). (2E) Section 86A of the 1974 Act applies to rules under this section as it applies to rules under that Act. (2F) ”” On Question, amendments agreed to. [Amendments Nos. 492E to 492G not moved.]