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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/schedule-6/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/schedule-6/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/29",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) “The final reporting period” means the period of 3 months beginning with the date on which the provisional report was published under paragraph 10(2).\n(2) The Board may, before the end of the final reporting period, issue a notice extending that period by a period specified in the notice.\n(3) More than one notice may be issued under sub-paragraph (2), but the total final reporting period must not exceed 5 months.\n(4) The Board may issue a notice under sub-paragraph (2) only after it has consulted—\n(a) the CMA,\n(b) the Consumer Panel, and\n(c) the Lord Chief Justice.\n(5) A notice under sub-paragraph (2) must state the Board's reasons for extending the final reporting period.\n(6) The Board must publish a notice issued under sub-paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 6 para. 17(4)(a) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 118(7); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/schedule/6/paragraph/17",
    "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."
}