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  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
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  "number": "23",
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  "text": "The foregoing provisions of Part II of this Schedule shall apply in relation to an appeal to the Tribunal under section 42ZA(9), (10), (11) or (12), section 42ZD(1). . . or section 53D(1) as they apply in relation to a complaint, but with the following modifications—\n(a) for references to a complaint (except in paragraph 14A) there shall be substituted references to an appeal;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) paragraphs . . . 9 and 10 shall not apply;\n(ca) in paragraph 11, for the words “complainer and respondent” there shall be substituted “ parties to the appeal ”;\n(cb) in paragraph 12—\n(i) for the words “the complainer or the respondent” there shall be substituted “ any party to the appeal ”;\n(ii) for the word “respondent” where it second appears there shall be substituted “solicitor , the firm of solicitors or, as the case may be, the incorporated practice or the authorised legal business”;\n(iii) for the words “complainer and to the respondent” there shall be substituted “ parties to the appeal ”;\n(cc) in paragraph 14A(a), after the word “complaint” there shall be inserted “ (as respects which the appeal was made) ”;\n(cd) in paragraph 15, for the words “respondent, the complainer and, as the case may be, the person who made the complaint as respects which the appeal was made to the Tribunal” there shall be substituted “ parties to the appeal and, if the person who made the complaint as respects which the appeal was made was not a party to the appeal, to that person ”;\n(ce) in paragraph 16, after paragraph (e) there shall be inserted—\n“(ea) under section 42ZD(2); or\n(eb) under section 53ZB(1), (2), (3) or (4); or”; and\n(d) in paragraph 19, for the words from the beginning to “respondent” there shall be substituted The Tribunal may make such order as it thinks fit as to the payment by any party to the appeal;",
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      "text": "Sch. 4 paras. 23–25 added by Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 42, SIF 76:2), s. 6(1), Sch. 1 para. 23(e)"
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 23 inserted (1.10.2008) by Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 5), ss. 81, 82, Sch. 5 para. 1(26)(c)(i) (with s. 77); S.S.I. 2008/311, art. 2"
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 23 repealed (1.10.2008) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 195, 210, 211, Sch. 20 para. 1(19)(c), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2008/1436, art. 3"
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 23(a) inserted (1.10.2008) by Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 5), ss. 81, 82, Sch. 5 para. 1(26)(c)(ii) (with s. 77); S.S.I. 2008/311, art. 2"
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      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 23(b) repealed (1.10.2008) by Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 5), ss. 81, 82, Sch. 5 para. 1(26)(c)(iii) (with s. 77); S.S.I. 2008/311, art. 2"
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 23(cb)(ii) substituted (1.7.2026 for specified purposes) by Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 8), s. 103(3), sch. 1 para. 33(5); S.S.I. 2026/96, reg. 2(3)(4), sch. 2"
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