{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-commencement-no-12-supplementary-and-transitory-provision-order-2014/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3307",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Commencement No. 12, Supplementary and Transitory Provision) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-commencement-no-12-supplementary-and-transitory-provision-order-2014",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Services Act 2007 (Commencement No. 12, Supplementary and Transitory Provision) Order 2014 and comes into force on 20th January 2015.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 2007 Act” means the Legal Services Act 2007;\n“Claims Management Services Regulator” means—\n(a) the person designated as the Regulator under section 5(1) of the Compensation Act 2006, or\n(b) the person exercising the functions of the Regulator under section 5(9) of that Act;\n“regulated claims management services” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Compensation Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 5(9) has been amended by paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 19 to the Legal Services Act 2007, but the amendment has not yet been commenced."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3307/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:36.556956+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."
}