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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111124772",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (The Law Society) (Modification of Functions) Order 2015",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1974 Act” means the Solicitors Act 1974;\n“the 1985 Act” means the Administration of Justice Act 1985;\n“the 2000 Regulations” means the European Communities (Lawyer’s Practice) Regulations 2000;\n“sole solicitor” means a solicitor who is the sole principal in a practice; and\n“sole solicitor endorsement” means an endorsement of the practising certificate of a solicitor by the Law Society authorising the solicitor to practise as a sole solicitor, made under section 1B of the 1974 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/1119."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 1B was inserted by paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 16 to the Legal Services Act 2007."
    }
  ],
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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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