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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2010/16",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Other licensing rules",
  "text": "(1) Licensing rules may allow for—\n(a) an applicant to be issued with a provisional licence—\n(i) in anticipation of its becoming (or becoming eligible to be) a licensed provider, and\n(ii) whose full effect as a licence is conditional on its becoming a licensed provider (and such other relevant matters as the rules may specify), or\n(b) a licensed provider to be issued with a provisional licence—\n(i) in anticipation of its transferring to the regulation of the approved regulator, and\n(ii) whose full effect as a licence is conditional on the transfer occurring (and such other relevant matters as the rules may specify).\n(2) Licensing rules must—\n(a) state that a licence application may be refused on the ground that the applicant appears to be incapable (for any reason) of complying with the regulatory scheme,\n(b) provide for grounds for non-renewal, revocation or suspension of a licence where the licensed provider is breaching (or has breached) the regulatory scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 1.4.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/16/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:19.904135+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."
}