http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/section/205/2022-06-28Legal Services Act 2007An Act to make provision for the establishment of the Legal Services Board and in respect of its functions; to make provision for, and in connection with, the regulation of persons who carry on certain legal activities; to make provision for the establishment of the Office for Legal Complaints and for a scheme to consider and determine legal complaints; to make provision about claims management services and about immigration advice and immigration services; to make provision in respect of legal representation provided free of charge; to make provision about the application of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007; to make provision about the Scottish legal services ombudsman; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-06-20Expert Participation2022-06-28 Part 9General<Emphasis>Orders, rules <Abbreviation Expansion="Et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc</Abbreviation></Emphasis>Consultation requirements for rules2051This section applies in relation to—arules made by the Board under this Act, andbrules made by the OLC under Part 6,other than excluded rules.2If the Board or the OLC (“the rule-making body”) proposes to make any rules, it must publish a draft of the proposed rules.3The draft must be accompanied by a notice which states that representations about the proposals may be made to the rule-making body within the period specified in the notice.4Before making the rules, the rule-making body must have regard to any representations duly made.5If the rules differ from the draft published under subsection (2) in a way which is, in the opinion of the rule-making body, material, it must publish details of the differences.6The rule-making body must publish any rules it makes, and rules may not take effect before the time they are published.7Subsection (6) does not apply to rules made by the Board under section 37(4), 95(3) or 173.8The rule-making body may make a reasonable charge for providing a person with a copy of—aa draft published under subsection (2), orbrules published under subsection (6).9In this section “excluded rules” means—arules of procedure made by the Board for the purposes of paragraph 21 of Schedule 1,brules made by the Board in its capacity as an approved regulator or a licensing authority, andcrules of procedure made by the OLC for the purposes of paragraph 20 of Schedule 15;and references to making rules include references to modifying the rules and, in relation to any modifications of rules, references to the proposed rules are to be read as references to the proposed modifications.10This section is subject to section 156(3) (which disapplies this section to OLC rules made in response to a Board direction under section 156(1)(b)).
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