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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-transitional-savings-and-consequential-provisions-scotland-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2341",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Transitional, Savings and Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007-transitional-savings-and-consequential-provisions-scotland-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Section 33 of the 1990 Act",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies despite the repeal of section 33 of the 1990 Act by sections 195(5) and 210 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 20 and Schedule 23 to, the 2007 Act.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), section 33 of the 1990 Act will continue to have effect in relation to the following circumstances—\n(a) a complaint that a practitioner has been guilty of professional misconduct where the conduct giving rise to the complaint first occurred before 1st October 2008;\n(b) a complaint that a practitioner has provided inadequate professional services where those services were provided in connection with a matter in which the practitioner was first instructed before 1st October 2008; and\n(c) a complaint that a practitioner has been guilty of professional misconduct and has provided inadequate professional services where the services were provided in connection with a matter in which the practitioner was first instructed before 1st October 2008.\n(3) This article has effect only in relation to complaints made before 1st October 2010.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2341/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:25:02.187901+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."
}