Section 47 Licensed providersI1

(1)

For the purposes of this Part, a licensed legal services provider is a business entity which, through the designated and other persons within it—

(a)

provides (or offers to provide) legal services—

(i)

to the general public or otherwise, and

(ii)

for a fee, gain or reward, and

(b)

does so under a licence issued by an approved regulator in accordance with the approved regulator's licensing rules.

(2)

An entity is eligible to be a licensed provider only if it has within it, for the provision of legal services, at least one solicitor who holds a valid practising certificate that is free of conditions (such as may be imposed under section 15(1)(b) or 53(5) of the 1980 Act).

(3)

A licensed provider may not be regulated by more than one approved regulator at the same time.

(4)

In this Part, a reference to a licensed provider is to a licensed legal services provider.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 47 in force at 1.4.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 3, Sch.