212.In relation to (c) (Financial services under the Financial Services Act 1986), the Law Society of Scotland is still a recognised professional body under that Act. The Law Society of Scotland retains the function of dealing with complaints against solicitors in relation to investment business carried on under the 1986 Act, as this function of recognised professional bodies was saved on repeal of the 1986 Act.
Text created by the Scottish Government to explain what the Act sets out to achieve and to make the Act accessible to readers who are not legally qualified. Explanatory Notes were introduced in 1999 and accompany all Acts of the Scottish Parliament except those which result from Budget Bills.
Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:
The data on this page is available in the alternative data formats listed:
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.
