{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/section-95",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/section-95.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/29",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007",
  "path": "section/95",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "95",
  "heading": "Financial penalties",
  "text": "(1) A licensing authority may, in accordance with its licensing rules, impose on a licensed body, or a manager or employee of a licensed body, a penalty of such amount as it considers appropriate.\n(2) The amount must not exceed the maximum amount prescribed under subsection (3).\n(3) The Board must make rules prescribing the maximum amount of a penalty which may be imposed under this section.\n(4) Rules may be made under subsection (3) only with the consent of the Lord Chancellor.\n(5) A penalty under this section is payable to the licensing authority.\n(6) For the purposes of this section—\n(a) references to a licensed body are to a body which was a licensed body at the time the act or omission in respect of which the penalty is imposed occurred, and\n(b) references to a manager or employee of a licensed body are to a person who was a manager or employee of a licensed body at that time,\n(whether or not the body subsequently ceased to be a licensed body or the person subsequently ceased to be a manager or employee).\n(7) In sections 96 and 97 references to a “penalty” are to a penalty under this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 95 partly in force; s. 95 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 211; s. 95(3)(4) in force at 1.1.2009 by S.I. 2008/3149, art. 2(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 95(1)(2)(5)-(7) in force at 1.10.2011 by S.I. 2011/2196, art. 2(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/section/95",
    "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."
}