# Legal Services Act 2007, Paragraph 6

Status: prospective

(1) “Potentially competent licensing authority”, in relation to a licensable body, means an approved regulator—
(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
(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.
(2) A relevant designation order is an order—
(a) designating the approved regulator as a licensing authority in respect of one or more reserved legal activities, and
(b) the effect of which will be that the approved regulator becomes a competent licensing authority in relation to the licensable body.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/schedule/12/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/schedule-12/paragraph-6
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