23Removal from Supreme Court roll

23 Removal from Supreme Court roll

23 Removal from Supreme Court roll

(1) The Supreme Court may order the removal of the name and other particulars of a person from the Supreme Court roll, on—

(a) its own motion; or

(b) the recommendation of the designated local regulatory authority; or

(c) the recommendation of the designated tribunal.

(2) The designated local roll authority must remove a person’s name from the Supreme Court roll (the relevant roll) if satisfied that the person’s name has been removed from the Supreme Court roll for another jurisdiction (the other roll) and no order referred to in subsection (3) is, at the time of that removal, in force in relation to it.

(3) The Supreme Court may, on application by a person who reasonably expects that his or her name will be removed from the other roll, order that his or her name not be removed from the relevant roll under subsection (2), if the Supreme Court is satisfied that—

(a) the person’s name is likely to be removed from the other roll; and

(b) the reason for the removal of the name will not involve disciplinary action or the possibility of disciplinary action—

or may refuse to make an order.

(4) An order under subsection (3) may be made subject to any conditions the Supreme Court considers appropriate and remains in force for the period specified in it.

(5) The Supreme Court may revoke an order made under subsection (3), and subsection (2) then applies as if the person’s name were removed from the other roll when the revocation takes effect.

(6) The designated local roll authority—

(a) may, but need not, give the person notice of the date on which the authority proposes to remove the name from the relevant roll; and

(b) must, as soon as practicable, give the person notice of the removal of the name from the relevant roll, unless notice of the date of the proposed removal was previously given.

(7) The person’s name is, on his or her application to the designated local roll authority or on the designated local roll authority’s own initiative, to be restored to the relevant roll if the name is restored to the other roll.