# Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010, Section 47: Licensed providers


(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/16/section/47 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-47
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