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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-claims-management-activity-order-2018/article-68",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111172964",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Claims Management Activity) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-claims-management-activity-order-2018",
  "path": "article/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“compulsory jurisdiction” has the same meaning as it has in the 2000 Act;\n“former scheme” means the scheme operated by the Office for Legal Complaints under Part 6 of the 2007 Act (legal complaints);\n“new scheme” means the scheme for which provision is made in Part 16 of the 2000 Act (the ombudsman scheme);\n“relevant complaint” means a relevant existing complaint or a relevant new complaint;\n“relevant existing complaint” means a complaint of a kind specified in article 69(1);\n“relevant new complaint” means a complaint of a kind specified in article 70(1); and\n“scheme operator” has the same meaning as it has in Part 16 of the 2000 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of “compulsory jurisdiction” see the 2000 Act, section 226(8)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 115 of the 2007 Act provides that the scheme is to be operated under a name (which must include the word “ombudsman”) chosen by the Office for Legal Complaints. The chosen name is “The Legal Ombudsman Scheme”. Section 161 of the 2007 Act extends Part 6 of the 2007 Act to claims management services, and is repealed by this Order subject to saving provisions."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "For the meaning of “scheme operator” see the 2000 Act, section 225(2)."
    }
  ],
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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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