Part 1 S The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

Valid from 01/10/2008

Conduct or services complaints against practitioners S

6 Complaint determined to be conduct complaint S

Where, or to the extent that, the Commission determines under section 5(1) that a complaint is a conduct complaint, it must—

(a) remit the complaint to the relevant professional organisation to deal with (and give to the organisation any material which accompanies the conduct complaint);

(b) give notice in writing to the complainer and the practitioner by sending to each of them a copy of the determination and specifying—

(i) the reasons for the determination;

(ii) that the conduct complaint is being remitted under this section for investigation and determination by the relevant professional organisation;

(iii) the relevant professional organisation to which it is being remitted;

(iv) that the relevant professional organisation is under a duty under this Act to deal with the conduct complaint.