Legal Profession (Solicitors’ Accounts) Rules

1 Citation
2 Definitions
3 Client accounts conveyancing accounts and conveyancing (CPF) accounts
4 Moneys to be paid into client account
5 Splitting of moneys
6 No money other than money under rules 3(1), 4 and 5(3) to be paid into client account
7 Moneys which may be drawn from client account
8 Money from client account — how drawn
9 Where solicitor under no obligation to pay client’s money into client account
10 Transfers between accounts
11 Cash books, ledgers, journals, etc.
11A Engagement of book-keeper
11B (Deleted)
12 Power of Council to require production of books of account, etc.
13 Intimation of costs incurred
14 Requirements of Council — how made
14A Notice given by Council to book-keepers
15 Saving
16 Power to waive provisions
17 Transitional and savings provisions for conveyancing money or anticipatory conveyancing money deposited into client account before 1st August 2011

Legislative History

No money other than money under rules 3(1), 4 and 5(3) to be paid into client account
6.
—(1)  No money, other than money under rules  3(1), 4 and 5(3) which a solicitor is required or permitted to pay into a client account, shall be paid into a client account.
[S 395/2011 wef 01/08/2011]
(2)  It shall be the duty of a solicitor into whose client account any money has been paid in contravention of this rule to withdraw the money without the delay on discovery.