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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-services-of-lawyers-and-lawyers-practice-revocation-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111174869",
  "legislation_title": "The Services of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-services-of-lawyers-and-lawyers-practice-revocation-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Administration of Justice Act 1985",
  "text": "(1) The Administration of Justice Act 1985 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 9 (recognition of legal services bodies and of sole solicitors’ practices)—\n(a) in subsection (1B)(b), omit “or registered European lawyers”; and\n(b) in subsection (8), omit the definition of “registered European lawyer”.\n(3) Until sub-paragraph (2) comes into force, section 9(8) has effect as if, in the definition of “registered European lawyer”, after “2000” there were added “, as that regulation has effect by virtue of regulation 5 of the Services of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019”.\n(4) In section 9A (legal services bodies)—\n(a) in subsection (6)—\n(i) for paragraph (c) substitute—\n“(c) an advocate or solicitor in Scotland;\n(ca) a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland or a solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland;”;\n(ii) in paragraph (d)(ii), for “paragraphs (a) to (c)” substitute “paragraphs (a) to (ca)”;\n(iii) in paragraph (e), for “paragraphs (a) to (c)” substitute “paragraphs (a) to (ca)”;\n(b) in subsection (8), omit the definition of “the Directive”.\n(5) Until sub-paragraph (4) comes into force, section 9A(6) has effect as if—\n(a) after paragraph (c) there were inserted—\n“(ca) an advocate or solicitor in Scotland;\n(cb) a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland or a solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland;”;\n(b) in paragraph (d)(ii), for “paragraphs (a) to (c)” there were substituted “paragraphs (a) to (cb)”;\n(c) in paragraph (e), for “paragraphs (a) to (c)” there were substituted “paragraphs (a) to (cb)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The heading to section 9 was amended by S.I. 2015/401. Section 9 was amended by section 177(b) of, and Schedule 16, Part 2, paragraph 81(3) to, the Legal Services Act 2007 and amended by S.I. 2000/1119 and 2015/401. There are other amending instruments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 9A was inserted by section 177(b) of, and Schedule 16, Part 2, paragraph 82 to, the Legal Services Act 2007 and amended by S.I. 2008/3074."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:20.139934+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."
}