{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007/section-9A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007/section-9A.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/9A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9A",
  "heading": "Services complaint: further provision",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Commission is investigating a services complaint under section 9(1) and becomes aware of new information from which it determines that the complaint—\n(a) was made prematurely,\n(b) was not made timeously, or\n(c) is frivolous, vexatious or totally without merit.\n(2) If the complaint was made prematurely, the Commission need not take any further action in relation to it.\n(3) If the complaint was not made timeously, the Commission is not to take any further action in relation to it.\n(4) If the complaint is frivolous, vexatious or totally without merit, the Commission must reject it.\n(5) Where the Commission—\n(a) does not take any further action in relation to, or\n(b) rejects,\na complaint under this section it must give notice in writing to the complainer and the practitioner and specify the reasons for the decision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 9A 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(10) (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      "type": "repealed",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/9A",
    "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."
}