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CONSUMER CREDIT ACT 1974

GENERAL NOTICE NO: 1109

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 Scotland, 26 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 7YR, which expires on 2 August 2004, has been renewed by the OFT on application by The Law Society of Scotland.

The licence is in respect of all solicitors who, for the time being, hold a practising certificate which is in force issued by the Law Society of Scotland under section 14 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980, or whose certificate, so issued and in force, expired by effluxion of the time under section 17(3) of that Act within the preceding 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 in the course of practice as a solicitor.

The licence is valid for a period of 5 years and commences on 3 February 2005

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

Office of Fair Trading, Fleetbank House, 2-6 Salisbury Square, London EC4Y 8JX.