Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. —(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—

“regulated claims management services” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Compensation Act 2006.

Commencement of section 161

2.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.

Adaptation relating to acts or omissions before the commencement of section 161

3. 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”.

Supplementary provision

4. 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.

Transitory modification

5. 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”.