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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-47",
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  "legislation": "asp/2010/16",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Licensed providers",
  "text": "(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—\n(a) provides (or offers to provide) legal services—\n(i) to the general public or otherwise, and\n(ii) for a fee, gain or reward, and\n(b) does so under a licence issued by an approved regulator in accordance with the approved regulator's licensing rules.\n(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).\n(3) A licensed provider may not be regulated by more than one approved regulator at the same time.\n(4) In this Part, a reference to a licensed provider is to a licensed legal services provider.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 47 in force at 1.4.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/16/section/47",
    "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."
}