All students are required to complete two years of supervised up to date practical training, that is within a Licensed Conveyancers or Solicitors Practice, Bank, Building Society, Lending Institution, Local Government Department, Property Developer, before obtaining a first licence. This can be achieved by either full or part-time employment. Part-time hours will be apportioned over an extended period to achieve the Practical Training Requirement.
CLC Training Rules 2004 ' A registered student must complete his practical training and produce evidence to the Council that he is doing or has done so at such times and in such form as it may require.'
Students in qualifying employment are required, for each twelve month period of training, to submit a Certificate of Practical Training to the CLC, signed by the supervisor giving an account of the training received. If the supervisor is not 'qualified' (see Note 1) the statement must be countersigned by a 'qualified' person from their date of registration and continue to do so until the completion of all the CLC assessments and examinations.
Only after all the examinations have been successfully completed or been exempted from, and practical training certificates have been submitted to the CLC can a first licence be applied for.
Note 1 A 'supervisor' is a 'qualified person' either a licensed conveyancer entitled to practise as a sole practitioner in accordance with the Council for Licensed Conveyancers' Practice Rules; or a solicitor who holds a current practising certificate and who has been admitted for at least three years and who has held three practising certificates consecutively for not less than the previous three years. |
