{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-1A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-1A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/47",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974",
  "path": "section/1A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1A",
  "heading": "Practising certificates: employed solicitors.",
  "text": "A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall, if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor, be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services—\n(a) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor;\n(b) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified; . . .\n(c) by a body recognised . . . under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (incorporated practices). or\n(d) by any other person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which is a reserved legal activity (within the meaning of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1A inserted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 85"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 1A(b) repealed (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 2(a), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(i)(ii)(aa) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 1A(c) repealed (7.3.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 210, 211, Sch. 16 para. 2(b), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/222, art. 2(j)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 1A(d) and preceding word inserted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 177, 211, Sch. 16 para. 2(c) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(ii) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1A(d) modified (temp.) (prosp.) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 209, 211, Sch. 22 para. 12 (with ss. 29, 192, 193)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/29",
      "affecting_title": "Legal Services Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/47/section/1A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:05.522324+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."
}