1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Legal Services Act 2007 (Registered European Lawyers) Order 2009 and comes into force—
(a)for the purposes of article 2(6), on the same day as section 13 of the Legal Services Act 2007 comes into force;
(b)for the purposes of article 3(7)(c)(ii), on the same day as paragraph 39 of Schedule 16 to the Legal Services Act 2007 comes into force;
(c)for all other purposes, on the same day as paragraph 9 of Schedule 16 to the Legal Services Act 2007 comes into force.
(2) In this Order—
(a)“the 1974 Act” means the Solicitors Act 1974(1);
(b)“the 2000 Regulations” means the European Communities (Lawyer’s Practice) Regulations 2000(2);
1974 c. 47. Sections 13B and 37A were inserted by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41); sections 33A and 44C were inserted by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22); section 44B was inserted by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61). The Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29) amends sections 9, 10, 11, 13, 13A, 13B, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28, 31, 32, 33, 33A, 34, 36, 41, 43, 44, 44B, 44C, 47 and 56, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1. It also inserts new sections 1B, 10A, 13ZA, 13ZB, 17A, 17B, 34A, 34B, 36A, 44BA, 44BC, 44D and 44E.
S.I. 2000/1119. This instrument has been amended by the European Communities (Lawyer’s Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/644), the European Communities (Lawyer’s Practice) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1628) and the European Communities (Lawyer’s Practice and Services of Lawyers) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/81).