Clause 91
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
1:15 pm
Bridget Prentice (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Lewisham East, Labour)
That would be entirely a matter for the licensing authority, acting within its rules. I would expect it to be fairly rigorous in making those checks. Of course, as the authority works through its system of checks, there would be nothing at all to stop it from making inspections, or from rechecking organisations to which it had given a licence. Certainly, that is very much the theme of the Bill. However, regarding the specificity of the checks, any checks would have to come within the rules of each licensing authority.