Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This order may be cited as the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Provisions on Abolition) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 31st December 1999.

(2) In this Order:

"ACLEC" means the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct;

"final period" means the period from 1st April 1999 to 31st December 1999.

Provisions on the abolition of ACLEC

2.-(1) Immediately before section 35(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 comes into force(2), all the property, rights and liabilities of ACLEC shall, by virtue of this Order, be transferred to the Lord Chancellor.

(2) In paragraph (1), "property" shall, without limitation, include all assets appearing in ACLEC's asset register immediately before section 35(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 comes into force.

3. The Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor or a person nominated by him shall, as soon as possible after 31st December 1999, prepare a statement of ACLEC's accounts for the final period; and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(3) shall apply to that statement and those accounts as if it were still in force, and as if the final period were a financial year for the purposes of that paragraph.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order

This Order makes arrangements for the transfer, on the abolition of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC) by section 35(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999, of ACLEC's property, rights and liabilities to the Lord Chancellor. It also makes arrangements for the preparation and audit of ACLEC'S final accounts.