SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 21Minor and consequential amendments
Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39)
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In section 146 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (exceptions from section 145), after subsection (2) insert—
2A
An authorised person (other than a barrister or solicitor) engaging in contentious business is not to be treated as doing so in the course of any ancillary credit business.
2B
In subsection (2A)—
“authorised person” means a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation (within the meaning of that Act);
“contentious business” means business done in or for the purposes of proceedings begun before a court or before an arbitrator, not being non-contentious or common form probate business (within the meaning of section 128 of the Supreme Court Act 1981).