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  "legislation_title": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999",
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  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if the Commissioner refers a complaint to a designated professional body under paragraph 9(1)(c).\n(2) The Commissioner may give directions setting a timetable to be followed by the designated professional body—\n(a) in considering the complaint; and\n(b) if appropriate, in taking disciplinary proceedings in connection with the complaint.\n(3) In making his annual report to the Secretary of State under paragraph 21, the Commissioner must take into account any failure of a designated professional body to comply (whether wholly or in part) with directions given to it under this paragraph.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (5) applies if the Commissioner or the Secretary of State considers that a designated professional body has persistently failed to comply with directions given to it under this paragraph.\n(5) The Commissioner must take the failure into account in determining whether to make a report under section 86(9)(b) and the Secretary of State must take it into account in determining whether to make an order under section 86(2).",
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