{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/8",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Complaints initiated by, or continued by, the Commission",
  "text": "(1) The 2007 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 2, insert—\n“Complaints initiated by the Commission\n2A (1) In addition to receiving a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint mentioned in section 2(1), the Commission may itself initiate a complaint against a practitioner which, had it been received from a person mentioned in section 2(2), would be a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint.\n(2) Section 2(1A) applies to a complaint under subsection (1) as it applies to a complaint referred to in section 2(1).\n(3) References in this Part (other than in this section) and in sections 47 to 52A to a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint include references to a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint that is initiated by the Commission under subsection (1).\n(4) The Commission may not initiate a complaint under subsection (1) if it would not be an eligible complaint in accordance with any provision in rules made under section 32(1).”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 51 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 103(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/8/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:57.670595+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."
}