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On 19/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 19/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 19/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 14/05/2007.
New rule 11B
6.  The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 11A, the following rule:
Receipt and holding of conveyancing money
11B.
—(1)  A solicitor shall not receive or hold conveyancing money unless the solicitor —
(a)
has at least 2 signatories to his client account;
(b)
has notified the Council of the signatories to his client account and their particulars in accordance with this rule;
(c)
reasonably believes that the signatories to his client account are not persons prohibited under rule 8(7) from signing a cheque or other instruction effecting a withdrawal from a client account; and
(d)
has furnished to the Council a statutory declaration —
(i)
identifying the signatories to his client account in such manner as the Council may require; and
(ii)
stating that he reasonably believes that the signatories to his client account are not persons prohibited under rule 8(7) from signing a cheque or other instruction effecting a withdrawal from a client account.
(2)  The solicitor shall, within 7 days of any change in any matter stated in a statutory declaration furnished by him to the Council under this rule, furnish to the Council a further statutory declaration notifying the Council of the change.”.