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Legal Services Bill [HL]

Amendment No. 105B has three arms. The first requires the board to respect the principle that primary responsibility for regulation rests with the approved regulators; the second requires the board to intervene only when an approved regulator acts unreasonably; and the third exhorts the board to seek to resolve matters informally with the approved regulators before seeking to use its more draconian powers under Clauses 31 to 40. If I have understood the noble Baroness correctly, she agrees with all three arms of the amendment but she believes that it is unnecessary to put them in the Bill.