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Legal Services Bill [HL]

moved Amendments Nos. 25 to 27: 25: Schedule 22, page 354, line 43, at end insert— ““ (1) During the transitional period, section 44B of the Solicitors Act 1974 (provision of information and documents by solicitors etc) has effect as if the list of persons in subsection (2) of that section included a legal partnership (within the meaning of paragraph 7 of Schedule 5). (2) For this purpose ““the transitional period”” means the period which— (a) begins with the day on which section 44B of the Solicitors Act 1974 (as substituted by Schedule 16) comes into force, and (b) ends with the day appointed for the coming into force of section 13.”” 26: Schedule 22, page 355, line 36, at end insert— ““( ) a person who, by virtue of paragraph 13 of Schedule 5, is an exempt person in relation to the carrying on of an activity which is a notarial activity,”” 27: Schedule 22, page 355, line 46, at end insert— ““( ) a person who, by virtue of paragraph 17A of Schedule 5, is an exempt person in relation to the carrying on of an activity which is a reserved legal activity within sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph.”” On Question, amendments agreed to. Schedule 23 [Repeals]: