Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010

47 Licensed providers

(1) For the purposes of this Part, a licensed legal services provider is a business entity which, through the designated and other persons within it—

(a) provides (or offers to provide) legal services—

(i) to the general public or otherwise, and

(ii) for a fee, gain or reward, and

(b) does so under a licence issued by an approved regulator in accordance with the approved regulator’s licensing rules.

(2) An entity is eligible to be a licensed provider only if it has within it, for the provision of legal services, at least one solicitor who holds a valid practising certificate that is free of conditions (such as may be imposed under section 15(1)(b) or 53(5) of the 1980 Act).

(3) A licensed provider may not be regulated by more than one approved regulator at the same time.

(4) In this Part, a reference to a licensed provider is to a licensed legal services provider.