Other Notices
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.
R Hall, Director, Consumer Credit & Estate Agency, Office of Fair Trading, Fleetbank House,
2-6 Salisbury Square, London EC4Y 8JX.