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How to become a licensed conveyancer
No degree is required: the diploma and apprenticeship routes are open to school leavers, and several exemption routes exist for people already qualified elsewhere.
Legal basis. Licensing is under section 11 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985; the CLC is the approved regulator under schedule 4 to the Legal Services Act 2007.
The route
- Take the CLC Diploma, or an apprenticeship route in England or Wales.
- Qualify first as a CLC Technician, then as a CLC Lawyer.
- Apply for a First Qualifying Licence, which names the activities you may carry on.
Exemptions and other routes in
- Law Graduate Fast Track Exemption.
- Overseas Graduate Exemption.
- CILEX Transfer Exemption.
- Professional Experience Exemption.
- Advanced Probate Exemption, for adding probate to an existing licence.
How many actually get in
2,428 people on the current register have a date for when they first licensed by the CLC, the earliest in 1987. No regulator publishes this; it is counted from the register itself.
| Year | Joined | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | |
| 2016 | 77 | |
| 2017 | 48 | |
| 2018 | 56 | |
| 2019 | 103 | |
| 2020 | 87 | |
| 2021 | 127 | |
| 2022 | 164 | |
| 2023 | 232 | |
| 2024 | 159 | |
| 2025 | 149 | |
| 2026 | 135 |
The CLC's first-licence date, so it counts people entering the profession rather than licences renewed.
What the work pays
By occupation code, not by profession — for most of these professions those are not the same thing. See what they earn for why.
| Occupation | Median |
|---|---|
| Legal professionals n.e.c. | £33,822 |
Where to apply
CLC’s own page. This site is not the regulator and cannot admit anybody to anything; everything above is a summary of what they publish, and where the two differ they are right.
Where these facts come from
- primary — read from the regulator's own page on the date shown
- statute — the Act or regulations named, which can be checked against legislation.gov.uk
- measured — computed from the register snapshots this site holds
- secondary — recorded from a source other than the regulator's own page and not verified against it
Read from the regulators’ pages on 2026-09-28.