Legislation – Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025
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Part 3Complaints
51Complaints initiated by, or continued by, the Commission
(1)
The 2007 Act is amended as follows.
(2)
“2AComplaints initiated by the Commission
(1)
In addition to receiving a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint mentioned in section 2(1), the Commission may itself initiate a complaint against a practitioner which, had it been received from a person mentioned in section 2(2), would be a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint.
(2)
Section 2(1A) applies to a complaint under subsection (1) as it applies to a complaint referred to in section 2(1).
(3)
References in this Part (other than in this section) and in sections 47 to 52A to a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint include references to a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint that is initiated by the Commission under subsection (1).
(4)
The Commission may not initiate a complaint under subsection (1) if it would not be an eligible complaint in accordance with any provision in rules made under section 32(1).”.