# The Legal Services Act 2007 (The Law Society) (Modification of Functions) (Amendment) Order 2012, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes amendments to the Legal Services Act 2007 (The Law Society and the Council for Licensed Conveyancers) (Modification of Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2001/1716) (“the principal Order”) in respect of the functions of the Law Society.
Article 5 and the Schedule to the principal order modified provisions of the Solicitors Act 1974 (c.47) so as enable the Law Society to make rules to extend compensation arrangements which apply in relation to solicitors so that the arrangements could apply, for a transitional period, in relation to bodies which are licensed under Part 5 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (c.29). Articles 4 and 5 of this Order remove the provisions of the principal order which limited the effect of this modification to the transitional period, so that the Law Society’s power to make compensation rules in relation to such licensed bodies will continue beyond the end of that period (which comes to an end on 31 December 2012).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111529287/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legal-services-act-2007-the-law-society-modification-of-functions-amendment-order-2012/note
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