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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985-commencement-no-7-order-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2683",
  "legislation_title": "The Administration of Justice Act 1985 (Commencement No. 7) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985-commencement-no-7-order-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force sections 9 and 10 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (incorporated practices). Section 9 allows the Council of the Law Society to make rules regulating the carrying on of a solicitor’s practice through bodies corporate, brings into force the provisions of Schedule 2 to the Act (“Incorporated Practices: Supplemental Provisions”) and empowers the Lord Chancellor to apply provisions relating to Solicitors to such bodies corporate (with or without modification). Section 10 establishes an offence of pretending to be a body recognised under section 9.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2683/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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