Explanatory Notes

Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 8

27 June 2025

Background

Schedule 3 — Minor and Consequential Modifications of Enactments

Part 5 – Miscellaneous modifications of other enactmentsFreedom of information

Civil enforcement of certain offences

354.Paragraphs 44 and 45 and the 1980 Act and 2010 Act respectively clarify that the civil remedy of interdict may be sought with a view to preventing the carrying out of an act that is subject to criminal law penalties under those Acts.