The Legal Services Act 2007 (Warrant) (Approved Regulator) Regulations 2015

Sections 42 and 48 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (“the 2007 Act”) permit the Legal Services Board (“the Board”), a person nominated by the Board as provided in section 41(2) of that Act, a person appointed to act for the Board or that person’s nominee to apply in certain circumstances for a warrant authorising the applicant to enter and search the premises of an approved regulator and take possession of any written or electronic records found on the premises. Those circumstances are where the Board has given an approved regulator (within the meaning of the 2007 Act) an intervention direction under section 41 of the 2007 Act or where an order of the Lord Chancellor under section 45 of the 2007 Act has cancelled a body’s designation as an approved regulator.