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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/schedule-12/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/29",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/6",
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  "number": "6",
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  "text": "(1) “Potentially competent licensing authority”, in relation to a licensable body, means an approved regulator—\n(a) which has made an application to the Board under Part 1 of Schedule 10 for a recommendation that the Lord Chancellor make a relevant designation order, and whose application has not been determined, or\n(b) in respect of which the Board has made such a recommendation, but in respect of which no relevant designation order (or decision not to make such an order) has been made by the Lord Chancellor.\n(2) A relevant designation order is an order—\n(a) designating the approved regulator as a licensing authority in respect of one or more reserved legal activities, and\n(b) the effect of which will be that the approved regulator becomes a competent licensing authority in relation to the licensable body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/schedule/12/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:22.589914+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."
}