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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007/section-33",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/5",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Duty of relevant professional organisations to forward complaints to Commission",
  "text": "Where a relevant professional organisation receives a complaint from a person other than the Commission about—\n(a) the conduct of, or any services provided by, a practitioner;\n(b) its handling of a conduct complaint remitted to it under section 6(2)(a) or 15(5)(a),\nit must without delay send the complaint and any material which accompanies it to the Commission.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
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      "type": "s. 33 renumbered as s. 33(1)",
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      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
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      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
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    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/5/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:01.165335+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."
}