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Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Act 1997

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3Advisory functions

The following section shall be inserted after section 34A of the 1990 Act—

“34BAdvisory functions of ombudsman

(1)The Scottish legal services ombudsman may make recommendations to any professional organisation about their procedures for, and methods of, dealing with conduct complaints.

(2)It shall be the duty of a professional organisation to whom a recommendation is made under this section—

(a)to consider the recommendation; and

(b)to notify the ombudsman of the results of that consideration and any action which they have taken, or propose to take, in consequence of the recommendation.”.

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