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Title and introductory text
2014 No. 3307 (C. 152)
Legal Services, England And Wales
The Legal Services Act 2007 (Commencement No. 12, Supplementary and Transitory Provision) Order 2014
Made
15th December 2014
Laid before Parliament
17th December 2014
Coming into force
20th January 2015
The Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 208(2) and (4) and 211(2) of the Legal Services Act 2007.
Propose a change1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
(1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Services Act 2007 (Commencement No. 12, Supplementary and Transitory Provision) Order 2014 and comes into force on 20th January 2015.
(2) In this Order—
“the 2007 Act” means the Legal Services Act 2007;
“Claims Management Services Regulator” means—
the person designated as the Regulator under section 5(1) of the Compensation Act 2006, or
the person exercising the functions of the Regulator under section 5(9) of that Act;
“regulated claims management services” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Compensation Act 2006.
Propose a change2 Commencement of section 161
Section 161 (extension of Part 6 to claims management services) of the 2007 Act comes into force as follows—
(a) subsection (3) comes into force on 20th January 2015; and
(b) subsections (1), (2) and (4) come into force on 28th January 2015.
Propose a change3 Adaptation relating to acts or omissions before the commencement of section 161
For the purposes of the extension of Part 6 of the 2007 Act to regulated claims management services, section 125 of that Act is to be read as if, for “this section”, there were substituted “section 161”.
Propose a change4 Supplementary provision
For the purposes of section 128 of the 2007 Act a person is to be regarded as an authorised person in relation to regulated claims management services at a time before section 161 of that Act comes into force, if the person was at that time a person authorised by the Claims Management Services Regulator under Part 2 of the Compensation Act 2006 to provide regulated claims management services.
Propose a change5 Transitory modification
Until the coming into force of paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 19 to the 2007 Act, section 161(4) of that Act is to be read as if the reference to “the Board” were to “the Secretary of State who is exercising functions under section 5(9) of the Compensation Act 2006”.
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