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Paragraph 156

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In Schedule 2 to the Companies Act 2006 (exceptions from restrictions on disclosure), in paragraph 67—

(a)

for “solicitor, barrister, advocate” substitute “ relevant lawyer ”, and

(b)

for “ “Foreign lawyer”” to the end substitute—

“In this paragraph—

“foreign lawyer” means a person (other than a relevant lawyer) who is a foreign lawyer within the meaning of section 89(9) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;

“relevant lawyer” means—

(a)

a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes a reserved legal activity (within the meaning of that Act),

(b)

a solicitor or barrister in Northern Ireland, or

(c)

a solicitor or advocate in Scotland.”