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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-compensation-exemptions-order-2006/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-compensation-exemptions-order-2006/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110754018",
  "legislation_title": "The Compensation (Exemptions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-compensation-exemptions-order-2006",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Legal practitioners",
  "text": "(1) Section 4(1) of the Act does not prevent the provision of a regulated claims management service in the circumstances that—\n(a) the service is provided—\n(i) by a legal practitioner;\n(ii) by a firm, organisation or body corporate that provides the service through a legal practitioner; or\n(iii) by an individual who provides the service at the direction, and under the supervision, of a legal practitioner who is—\n(aa) his employer or fellow employee; or\n(bb) a director of a company, or a member of a limited liability partnership, that provides the service and is his employer; and\n(b) the legal practitioner acts in the normal course of practice in a way permitted by the professional rules to which he is subject.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “legal practitioner” means—\n(a) a solicitor, barrister or advocate of any part of the United Kingdom;\n(b) a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives;\n(c) a European lawyer, as defined in the European Communities (Services of Lawyers) Order 1978;\n(d) a registered foreign lawyer, as defined in section 89(9) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; or\n(e) any other member of a legal profession, of a jurisdiction other than England and Wales, that is recognised by the Law Society or the General Council of the Bar as a regulated legal profession.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1910, as amended by the European Communities (Services of Lawyers) (Amendment) Order 2004 (SI 2004/1117)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 41."
    }
  ],
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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."
}