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Section 33 Duty of relevant professional organisations to forward complaints to Commission

Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Where a relevant professional organisation receives a complaint from a person other than the Commission about—

(a)

the conduct of, or any services provided by, a practitioner;

(b)

its handling of a conduct complaint remitted to it under section F16(2)(a) or 15(5)(a),

it must without delay send the complaint and any material which accompanies it to the Commission.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in s. 33(b) substituted (1.1.2015) by The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (Modification of Duties and Powers) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/232), regs. 1(2), 2(11) (with reg. 4)

Notes on Part 1

Modifications

C1

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (2.7.2012) by The Licensed Legal Services (Complaints and Compensation Arrangements) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/153), regs. 1(1), 2