2004 No. 1989 (N.I. 13)

The Solicitors (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Title, commencement and interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the Solicitors (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004.

2

This Order comes into operation on the day after that on which it is made.

3

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c.33) applies to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Increase in borrowing limit of Compensation Fund2

1

In Schedule 2 to the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (NI 12) (the Compensation Fund) in paragraph 4 (power of Law Society to borrow for purposes of the Fund subject to a limit of £100,000) for “£100,000” substitute “ £1 million or such other amount as the Department of Finance and Personnel may by order subject to negative resolution specify ”.