# The Small Business Commissioner (Scope and Scheme) Regulations 2017, Regulation 3: Requirements before presenting a complaint to the Commissioner


(1) Before presenting a complaint to the Commissioner, the person making the complaint must (unless the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) apply)—
(a) communicate the substance of the complaint to the person against whom the complaint is made; and
(b) give that person a reasonable opportunity to deal with it.
(2) The specified circumstances are where the Commissioner considers for this particular complaint, there is sufficient information to suggest that communicating it to the person against whom it is made would have a significant detrimental effect on the commercial interests of the person making it.
(3) Where the requirements in paragraph (1) are not complied with the Commissioner must dismiss the complaint or the part of the complaint that did not comply with paragraph (1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111159217/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-small-business-commissioner-scope-and-scheme-regulations-2017/regulation-3
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