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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limited-liability-partnerships-act-northern-ireland-2002-repealed/schedule/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "nia/2002/12",
  "legislation_title": "Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limited-liability-partnerships-act-northern-ireland-2002-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If any person carries on a business under a name or title which includes as the last words—\n(a) the expression “limited liability partnership”, or\n(b) any contraction or imitation of that expression,\nthat person, unless a limited liability partnership or oversea limited liability partnership, commits an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2002/12/schedule/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:33.998555+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."
}