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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-compensation-for-inadequate-professional-services-order-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2749",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Compensation for Inadequate Professional Services) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-compensation-for-inadequate-professional-services-order-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL PROFESSION, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 5th October 2005\nLaid before Parliament 10th October 2005\nComing into force 1st January 2006\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1A to the Solicitors Act 1974, having consulted the Law Society, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 47; Schedule 1A was added by Schedule 15 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), and the functions of the Lord Chancellor under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1A transferred to the Secretary of State by Article 9 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to, the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887)."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2749/introduction",
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  "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."
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