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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/schedule-16/paragraph-123",
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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/16/paragraph/123",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "123",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 36 of that Schedule (privilege from disclosure etc)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) Where a recognised body acts as such for a client, any communication, document, material or information is privileged from disclosure in like manner as if the recognised body had at all material times been a solicitor acting for the client.”,\n(b) in sub-paragraph (3) for “an officer” substitute “ a manager ”, and\n(c) after that sub-paragraph insert—\n“(4) This paragraph does not apply to a recognised body which holds a licence under Part 5 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (alternative business structures).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 123 in force at 31.3.2009 by S.I. 2009/503, art. 2(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "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."
}