{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/schedule-21/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/schedule-21/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/29",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 146 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (exceptions from section 145), after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) An authorised person (other than a barrister or solicitor) engaging in contentious business is not to be treated as doing so in the course of any ancillary credit business.\n(2B) In subsection (2A)—\n“authorised person” means a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation (within the meaning of that Act);\n“contentious business” means business done in or for the purposes of proceedings begun before a court or before an arbitrator, not being non-contentious or common form probate business (within the meaning of section 128 of the Supreme Court Act 1981).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/schedule/21/paragraph/31",
    "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."
}