Explanatory Notes

Legal Services Act 2007

2007 CHAPTER 29

30th October 2007

Commentary on Sections

Part 5: Alternative Business Structures

Background

Section 109: Foreign bodies

286.This section allows the Lord Chancellor to adapt provisions in this Part of the Act in their application to bodies formed under law outside of England and Wales. A company formed under the law of a foreign country might, for example, have different ownership structures for which the Part 5 provisions need to be adapted.