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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-designation-as-a-licensing-authority-no-2-order-2011/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2866",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Designation as a Licensing Authority) (No. 2) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-designation-as-a-licensing-authority-no-2-order-2011",
  "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 (Designation as a Licensing Authority) (No. 2) Order 2011.\n(2) This Order comes into force on 23rd December 2011.\n(3) In this Order—\n“the 1974 Act” means the Solicitors Act 1974 ;\n“the 2007 Act” means the Legal Services Act 2007;\n“licensed body” means a body which holds a licence issued by the Law Society which is in force under Part 5 of the 2007 Act; and\n“the Society” means the Law Society.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c. 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2866/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:48:50.183434+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."
}