{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023/schedule-15/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023/schedule-15/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/32",
  "legislation_title": "National Security Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Legal activities",
  "text": "(1) Sections 65(4) and 69(3) (requirements to register foreign activity arrangements and foreign influence arrangements) do not apply in relation to a foreign activity arrangement or a foreign influence arrangement to the extent that the arrangement relates to the carrying on of a legal activity by a lawyer.\n(2) The following provisions do not apply to the carrying on of a legal activity by a lawyer—\n(a) section 68(1) to (3) (specified persons etc must not carry out unregistered activities);\n(b) section 72(1) (foreign powers etc must not carry out unregistered political influence activities).\n(3) “Lawyer” means—\n(a) a person who for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007 is an authorised person in relation to an activity that constitutes a reserved legal activity (within the meaning of that Act),\n(b) a solicitor or barrister in Northern Ireland,\n(c) a solicitor or advocate in Scotland, or\n(d) a person who is a member, and entitled to practise as such, of a legal profession regulated in a jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom.\n(4) “Legal activity” means—\n(a) in England and Wales, a legal activity within the meaning of section 12 of the Legal Services Act 2007,\n(b) in Northern Ireland, a legal activity within the meaning of that section, but reading the reference to an activity which is a reserved legal activity as a reference to an activity corresponding to a reserved legal activity,\n(c) in Scotland, the provision of legal services within the meaning of section 3 of the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), or\n(d) acting as an arbitrator or mediator.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 6 not in force at Royal Assent, see 100(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 6 in force at 1.7.2025 by S.I. 2025/674, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/32/schedule/15/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:52:07.318384+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."
}