CONSUMER CREDIT ACT 1974

General Notice No: 1110

Group Licence for Bodies Approved for Specific Purposes

I, Ray Hall, Director of Consumer Credit and Estate Agency in the Office of Fair Trading (‘the OFT’) and a member of the OFT’s staff, being authorised in that behalf in writing by the OFT pursuant to paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Fair Trading Act 1973, hereby give general notice pursuant to section 29(6) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 that the group licence issued to The Law Society of Northern Ireland, Law Society House, 98 Victoria Street, Belfast BT1 3JZ, which expires on 2 August 2004, has been renewed by the OFT on application by The Law Society of Northern Ireland.

The licence is in respect of all solicitors who, for the time being, hold a practising certificate which is in force issued by the Registrar of The Law Society of Northern Ireland under article 11 (1) of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, or any amendment thereof, or whose certificate, so issued and in force, expired by effluxion of time under article 11(4) of that Order within the preceeding calendar month, to carry the business of:

A	Consumer Credit
C	Credit Brokerage
D	Debt adjusting and Debt counselling
E	Debt collecting

limited to activities arising the course of practice as a solicitor.

The licence is valid for a period of 5 years and commences on the 3rd August 2004

OFFICE OF FAIR TRADING, FLEETBANK HOUSE, 2 6 SALISBURY SQUARE LONDON EC4Y 8JX

Ray Hall, Director, Consumer Credit & Estate Agency, Office of Fair Trading

Date of Issue: 2 August 2004