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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/schedule-1A/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1976/582",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "schedule/1A/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub‐paragraph (2), references in this Schedule to a recognised body are references to a body corporate for the time being recognised under Article 26A.\n(2) References in this Schedule to a recognised body in relation to a complaint (other than such a complaint as is mentioned in paragraph 19(1)(a)) include references to a body corporate that was recognised under Article 26A at the time when the conduct to which the complaint ... relates took place.\n(3) References in this Schedule to an officer of a recognised body include references to a director, manager or secretary of that body and references in this Schedule to a director, in relation to a limited liability partnership, are references to a member of the limited liability partnership .\n(4) In Article 3(2) the definitions of “client”, “contentious business” and “non-contentious business” shall apply for the purposes of—\n(a) this Schedule; and\n(b) any other provision of this Order in so far as it has effect in relation to a recognised body by virtue of this Schedule,\nas if for any reference to a solicitor there were substituted a reference to a recognised body; and for those purposes “controlled trust”, in relation to a recognised body, means a trust of which it is sole trustee or co-trustee only with one or more of its officers or employees and “unqualified person” does not include a recognised body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "1989 NI 14"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1A para. 1(2) substituted (1.9.2025) by Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 14), s. 55, Sch. 4 para. 2(10)(a)(i); S.R. 2025/143, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1A para. 1(2) repealed (1.9.2025) by Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 14), s. 55, Sch. 4 para. 2(10)(a)(ii), Sch. 5; S.R. 2025/143, art. 2(1)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "SR 2004/307"
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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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