{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007/section-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Services complaint: notice",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where, or to the extent that, the Commission—\n(a) determines under section 2(1A)(a) that a complaint is a services complaint, and\n(b) proceeds to determine under section 2(4) whether the complaint is frivolous, vexatious or totally without merit and determines that it is none of these things.\n(2) The Commission must give notice in writing to the complainer and the practitioner by sending to each of them a copy of the determination under section 2(1A)(a) and specifying the reasons for the determination.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(1) inserted (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(6)(a) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7 renumbered as s. 7(2) (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(6)(b) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2) 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(6)(c)(i) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2) inserted (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(6)(c)(ii) (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/5/section/7",
    "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."
}