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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-52",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/52",
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  "number": "52",
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  "text": "(1) A disclosure with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, disciplinary proceedings relating to the performance by a lawyer, auditor, accountant, valuer or actuary of their professional duties.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “ lawyer ” means—\n(a) a person who for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29) is an authorised person in relation to an activity that constitutes a reserved legal activity (within the meaning of that Act),\n(b) a solicitor or barrister in Northern Ireland,\n(c) a solicitor or advocate in Scotland, or\n(d) a person who is a member, and entitled to practise as such, of a legal profession regulated in a jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom.\n(3) Until the coming into force of section 18 of the Legal Services Act 2007, the following is substituted for paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (2) above—\n(a) a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales,\n.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (1.7.2009) by virtue of The Companies Act 2006 (Amendment of Schedule 2) (No. 2) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1208), art. 2, Sch."
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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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