{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registered-foreign-lawyers-order-2009/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registered-foreign-lawyers-order-2009/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111478486",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Foreign Lawyers Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registered-foreign-lawyers-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Registered Foreign Lawyers Order 2009 and comes into force on the same day as paragraph 9 of Schedule 16 to the Legal Services Act 2007.\n(2) In this Order—\n(a) “the 1974 Act” means the Solicitors Act 1974;\n(b) “the 1985 Act” means the Administration of Justice Act 1985;\n(c) “the 1990 Act” means the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 47. The Legal Services Act 2007 amends sections 11, 13, 13A, 13B, 16, 28, 32, 33A, 41, 42, 44B, 44C and 47, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1. It also inserts new sections 44D and 44E. Section 33A was inserted by section 48 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 61. Section 177(b) of, and paragraphs 80, 96(b) and 97(c) of Schedule 16 to, the Legal Services Act 2007 insert new paragraphs 9(3) and 10(3) of Schedule 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111478486/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:41.125915+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}