Section 70: Procedural requirements relating to recommendations under section 69
176.Section 69 confers the power on the Lord Chancellor to make an order modifying or making other provision in relation to the functions of an approved regulator or other body other than the Board. Such an order may only be made following a recommendation by the Board, and such orders may only be made to achieve the purposes specified in section 69(3), namely:
to enable a body to become an approved regulator or licensing authority in relation to one or more reserved legal activities;
to enable a body to regulate different categories of legal persons;
to enable a body to carry out its role as an approved regulator/licensing authority more effectively or efficiently;
to enable a body to become a qualifying regulator for immigration services; or
(where the body is already a qualifying regulator) to enable it to authorise persons to provide any additional advice or services which amount to immigration advice or services.
177.Furthermore, the Board may only make a recommendation that such an order be made with the consent of the approved regulator to which the recommendation relates. Section 70 sets out the procedural requirements relating to the making of such recommendations.
