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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-designation-as-a-licensing-authority-order-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Designation as a Licensing Authority) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-designation-as-a-licensing-authority-order-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Legal Services, England And Wales\nMade at 12.48 p.m. on 12th March 2020\nLaid before Parliament 13th March 2020\nComing into force 6th April 2020\nThe Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (“the Institute”), has applied to the Legal Services Board (“the Board”) under paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Legal Services Act 2007 (“the Act”) for the Board to recommend that it be designated as a licensing authority in relation to the administration of oaths, having made the application specified by paragraph 1(3)(b) of that Schedule in relation to that reserved legal activity.\nThe Board has made a recommendation to the Lord Chancellor under paragraph 14 of Schedule 10 to the Act, having complied with the requirements of that Schedule, and having granted the Institute’s application.\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 15(1)(a) of Schedule 10 to the Act, having satisfied the precondition described in paragraph 15(3) of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c.29"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“The administration of oaths” is a reserved legal activity under section 12(1)(f) of the Legal Services Act 2007. Paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to that Act makes provision about what constitutes such activity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2020/271 designated the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales as an approved regulator in relation to the administration of oaths."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}