SCHEDULES

Prospective

F1 SCHEDULE 7 E+W The Conveyancing Ombudsman Scheme

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 7 repealed (prosp.) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208, 210, 211, Sch. 21 para. 100(d), Sch. 23 (with ss. 29, 192, 193)

5 The scheme may provide for the Conveyancing Ombudsman not to have jurisdiction to investigate complaints unless—

(a) the procedure for investigating complaints which is maintained by the authorised practitioner against whom the complaint is made has been exhausted; or

(b) the Conveyancing Ombudsman considers that the circumstances of the case are such as to justify his investigating the complaint before that procedure has been exhausted.