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Restriction on solicitor taking or retaining apprentice.
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29.—(1) A solicitor shall not take any apprentice after such solicitor has ceased to practise or to be a solicitor qualified to practise, or while such solicitor is employed as an assistant or clerk by another solicitor.
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(2) A solicitor who has not at some time been in continuous practice as a solicitor for a period of seven years shall not, without special leave of the Society, take any apprentice.
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(3) Regulations may restrict the taking of apprentices by solicitors who are in the whole time employment of bodies corporate.
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(4) Where a solicitor who is retaining an apprentice ceases to practise or to be a solicitor qualified to practise or becomes employed as an assistant or clerk to another solicitor, he shall not retain the apprentice for longer than six months thereafter.
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(5) Service by an apprentice to a solicitor who has taken him in contravention of subsection (1), subsection (2) or regulations made for the purposes of subsection (3) of this section or service by an apprentice to a solicitor during any period when such solicitor retained him in contravention of subsection (4) of this section shall, unless the Society direct otherwise, be deemed not to be good service by the apprentice under his indentures of apprenticeship.
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