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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-non-contentious-business-remuneration-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1931",
  "legislation_title": "The Solicitors’ (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-non-contentious-business-remuneration-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“client” means the client of a solicitor;\n“costs” means the amount charged in a solicitor’s bill, exclusive of disbursements and value added tax, in respect of non-contentious business;\n“entitled person” means a client or an entitled third party;\n“entitled third party” means a residuary beneficiary absolutely and immediately (and not contingently) entitled to an inheritance, where a solicitor has charged the estate for his professional costs for acting in the administration of the estate and the only personal representatives are—\n(a)solicitors (whether or not acting in a professional capacity);\n(b)solicitors acting jointly with partners, managers or employees in a professional capacity;\n(c)employees of a solicitor sole practitioner acting in that capacity; or\n(d)managers or employees of a recognised body or a licensed body acting in that capacity;\n“licensed body” means a body which holds a licence issued by the Law Society which is in force under Part 5 of the Legal Services Act 2007;\n“manager” has the same meaning as in the Legal Services Act 2007 (see section 207 of that Act);\n“ombudsman” has the same meaning as in the Legal Services Act 2007 (see section 122(5) of that Act);\n“paid disbursements” means disbursements already paid by the solicitor;\n“recognised body” means a body recognised by the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985;\n“registered European lawyer” means a registered European lawyer within the meaning of the European Communities (Lawyer’s Practice) Regulations 2000 , as those Regulations have effect by virtue of regulation 6 of the Services of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, who is registered with the Law Society;\n“residuary beneficiary” includes a person entitled to all or part of the residue of an intestate estate; and\n“solicitor” includes a registered European lawyer , a recognised body and a licensed body.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (20.2.2012) by The Solicitors’ (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/171), arts. 1(2), 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (20.2.2012) by The Solicitors’ (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/171), arts. 1(2), 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (6.10.2020) by The Solicitors’ (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2262), arts. 1(2), 2(2); S.I. 2010/2089, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Services of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1342), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 17 (with Sch. para. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (20.2.2012) by The Solicitors’ (Non-Contentious Business) Remuneration (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/171), arts. 1(2), 2(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 11.8.2009, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 61, as amended by the Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), section 177 and paragraph 81 of Schedule 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/1119."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1931/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:08:19.105339+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."
}