{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-complaints-and-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-15",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/14",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-complaints-and-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Complainants",
  "text": "(1) A complainant (“C”) is within this section if C—\n(a) meets the first and second conditions; and\n(b) is not excluded by subsection (4).\n(2) The first condition is that C is—\n(a) an individual; or\n(b) a person (other than an individual) or body of a description prescribed by order made by the Department in accordance with a recommendation made under section 16.\n(3) The second condition is that—\n(a) the services to which the complaint relates were provided by the respondent to C;\n(b) the services to which the complaint relates were provided by the respondent to a solicitor who procured them on C's behalf; or\n(c) C satisfies such other conditions, in relation to the services to which the complaint relates, as may be prescribed by order made by the Department in accordance with a recommendation made under section 16.\n(4) C is excluded if, at the time when the act or omission to which the complaint relates took place—\n(a) C was a solicitor and the services to which the complaint relates were procured by C on behalf of another person; or\n(b) C was a person or body of a description prescribed by order made by the Department in accordance with a recommendation made under section 16.\n(5) An order made under this section is subject to negative resolution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in operation at 1.9.2025 by S.R. 2025/143, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/14/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:57.957994+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}