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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If the Secretary of State considers—\n(a) that any of the qualification regulations of an authorised body may unduly restrict a right of audience or right to conduct litigation or the exercise of such a right, or\n(b) that any of the rules of conduct of an authorised body may unduly restrict the exercise of such a right,\nhe may give written notice to the body.\n(2) Before giving notice to an authorised body under sub-paragraph (1) the Secretary of State shall inform each of the designated judges that he intends to do so.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 substituted (1.1.2000) by 1999 c.22, s. 41, Sch. 5 para. 2 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 2(a) (subject to art. 4, Sch. 2 of that S.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Schs. 3-6 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(d) (with arts. 6, 8)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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