Legal Services Act 2007

Claims management services

161 Extension of Part 6 to claims management services

(1) For the purposes of this Part (and sections 1, 21 and 27 as they apply in relation to this Part)—

(a) the Claims Management Services Regulator is to be treated as an approved regulator;

(b) regulated claims management services are to be treated as a reserved legal activity;

(c) a person authorised by the Claims Management Services Regulator, under Part 2 of the Compensation Act 2006 (c. 29), to provide regulated claims management services is to be treated as an authorised person in relation to that activity;

(d) the Claims Management Services Regulator is to be treated as a relevant authorising body in relation to such a person; and

(e) regulations under section 9 of, and the Schedule to, the Compensation Act 2006 (regulations about the functions of the Claims Management Services Regulator etc) are to be treated as regulatory arrangements of the Claims Management Services Regulator.

(2) For the purposes of sections 112 and 145 (as extended by this section) a person authorised by the Claims Management Services Regulator under Part 2 of the Compensation Act 2006 to provide regulated claims management services is to be treated as a “relevant authorised person” in relation to the Regulator.

(3) Section 9 of, and the Schedule to, the Compensation Act 2006 (regulations about the functions of the Claims Management Regulator etc) are subject to any requirements imposed by this Part in relation to the regulatory arrangements of the Claims Management Regulator.

(4) In this section—

• “Claims Management Services Regulator” means—

  (a)

  the person designated under section 5(1) of the Compensation Act 2006, or

  (b)

  at a time when no person is so designated, the Board;

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