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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-79",
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  "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/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Commission membership",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 (the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission) of the 2007 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 2 (membership of the Commission)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(b), for “8” substitute “at least 8 but no more than 20”,\n(b) in sub-paragraph (3), for “5” substitute “at least 4”,\n(c) in sub-paragraph (4), after “be” insert “at least”,\n(d) sub-paragraphs (5), (7) and (9) are repealed,\n(e) in sub-paragraph (8), after “of lawyer members” insert “, but the number of non-lawyer members must not exceed the number of lawyer members by more than three”.\n(3) In paragraph 3 (terms of appointment etc.)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), for “5” substitute “not less than 5 years and not exceeding 8”,\n(b) sub-paragraph (5) is repealed.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 79 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 103(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 79 in force at 5.3.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/96, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/8/section/79",
    "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."
}