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Safety, client
money, controlled trust money, 1(c)
Salaried partners
accountant’s reports, 35n(v)
application of rules to, 4(1)(a)(ii)
as ‘principal’, 2(2)(r)(ii)
Search fees, 19n(ii),
22n(ii)
Securities, checks
not required in accountant’s reports, 44(b)
Separate accountant’s reports, several
places of business, 48(a)
Separate accounting periods, several
places of business, 48(b)
Separate designated client accounts
accounting records, 32(3)
interest, 24(1), 24(5)
meaning, 14(5)(a)
money held in, payment from general client account, 22(6)
overdrawn, 22(8)(a)
passbook-operated accounts for controlled trust money, 32(7)
rate of interest, 25
client money, 25
controlled trust money, 24(7), 24n(x)
reconciliations, 32(7)(a)
test procedures, 42(1)(o)
Separation of client’s and solicitor’s money,
1(b)
Serious Fraud Office, 34(7)
Set off, solicitor’s
right against money in client account, 12
Several places of business
separate accountant’s reports,
48(a)
separate accounting periods, 48(b)
Share accounts
not permitted for client accounts, 14(4)
permitted use of, 16, 18(c)
Shared client accounts, recognised
bodies, not permitted, 31(1)
Shared operation
client’s own account, 11(3)
joint account, 10(3)
Shares
checks not required in accountant’s reports, 44(b)
dividend payments, 31(2), 32(14)
purchase and sale, 15n(vii), 22(2)(a)
Small amounts
client money, waiver of accountant’s reports, 35n(ix),
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interest, 24(3)(a)–(b),
24(4)–(5)
Sole operation
client’s own account, 11(2)
joint account, 10(2)
Sole practitioner
death of, 22(8)(b)
name of client account, 14(3)(a)
owning recognised body, 31n(i)
retirement, accounting period, 36n(ii)
unattributable money in client account, 36n(iii)
Solicitor
acting for self, 13n(xii)
meaning, 2(2)(x)
Solicitors, governed
by rules, 4(1)(a)
Solicitors’ Accounts Rules 1998
commencement, 50
flowchart of effects, app.1
geographical scope, 3
persons exempt, 5, app.2
persons governed, 4
special situations, chart, app.2
Solicitors’ Compensation Fund, contributions,
in-house solicitors, 14n(ii)
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
misconduct by employee of a solicitor, 4n(i)
report by Monitoring and Investigation Unit used in
proceedings, 34(7)
Solicitor’s rights, against
money in client account, 12
Special situations chart, app.2
Spent, meaning, 22n(ii)
Stakeholder
administrative charges, 27n(ii)–(iv)
contracting out of interest rules, 27(2), 27n(ii)–(v)
holding client money, 13n(i)(a), app.1
interest, 26
Stamp duty
client money, 13n(i)(c)
included with payment of costs, 19(1)(a)(iii)
Standard terms of business
client money held outside client account, 16(2)
contracting out by, 27n(i)
Statutory rules
accounting records, 9, 32(9)(c),
32(12), 32(15)(b), 32n(ii)(a)
interest, 24n(viii)
Statutory undertakers
exempt from rules, 5(a)(ii)
meaning, 5n(i)
Stocks, checks
not required in accountant’s reports, 44(b)
Successive accounts, amount
of interest, 25(3)
Sum in lieu of interest, 24(2)–(5),
24(6)(b)
amount of interest, 25
checks not required by reporting accountant,
44(d)
interest certificates, 28
payment into client account, 15(2)(d)
relevant period, 25(2),
25n(i)–(ii)
stakeholder money, 26
when to account to client, 25n(i)
Surveyors, fees, 2n(v)
Suspense ledger accounts, 32(16)
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