{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-88.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/8",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/88",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Non-solicitor investors: factors as to fitness",
  "text": "In section 64 (factors as to fitness) of the 2010 Act—\n(a) in subsection (4)—\n(i) in the opening words, the words “(to any extent)” are repealed,\n(ii) in paragraph (a), before “ownership” insert “significant”,\n(b) after subsection (4) insert—\n“(4A) For the purpose of subsection (4)(a), whether a person has significant ownership or control of the body is to be determined by the approved regulator.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 88 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 103(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/8/section/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:57.670595+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."
}