Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 5)

Part 1 S The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

Valid from 23/11/2007

Forwarding complaints, advice, monitoring etc. S

Valid from 01/10/2008

33 Duty of relevant professional organisations to forward complaints to Commission S

Where a relevant professional organisation receives a complaint from a person other than the Commission about—

(a) the conduct of, or any services provided by, a practitioner;

(b) its handling of a conduct complaint remitted to it under section 6(a) or 15(5)(a),

it must without delay send the complaint and any material which accompanies it to the Commission.