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1701

House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given on

Tuesday 9th October 2007

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

1581-94, 1613, 1637-38, 1671-72, 1673 and 1675-86

Consideration of Bill

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Legal Services Bill [Lords], As Amended

Mr Secretary Straw

93

Page  70,  line  43  [Clause  136],  at end insert—

‘(1A)

The rules must provide for charges payable in relation to a complaint to be

reduced or waived (or partly or wholly refunded) where—

(a)	the complaint is determined or otherwise resolved in favour of the

respondent, and

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(b)	the ombudsman is satisfied that the respondent took all reasonable steps

to try to resolve the complaint under the respondent’s complaints

procedures.

(1B)	The rules may make provision as to—

(a)	the circumstances in which a complaint is to be treated as determined or

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otherwise resolved in favour of the respondent (which may include

circumstances where a complaint is settled, withdrawn or abandoned (or

treated as withdrawn or abandoned by virtue of scheme rules));

(b)	matters to be taken into account by the ombudsman for the purposes of

subsection (1A)(b).

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(1C)	The respondent’s complaints procedures are the procedures established by the

respondent, or which the respondent participates in or is subject to, in accordance

with regulatory arrangements (or licensing rules of the Board) made in

accordance with section 112.’.

As Amendments to Mr Secretary Straw’s proposed Amendment (No. 93):—

Mr David Heath

David Howarth

(a)

Line  2,  leave out ‘reduced or’.

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Legal Services Bill [Lords], continued

Mr David Heath

David Howarth

(b)

Line  2,  leave out ‘or partly’.

Mr Secretary Straw

97

Page  75,  line  21  [Clause  143],  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The ombudsman must give the complainant a notice stating that a report under

subsection (2) has been given to the relevant authorising body.’.

As an Amendment to Mr Secretary Straw’s proposed Amendment (No. 97):—

Mr David Kidney

(a)

Line  2,  at end add—

‘(2B)

The relevant authorising body must report to the complainant the action which

has been or is to be taken by it in response to the report and the reasons for that

action being taken.’.

Mr David Heath

David Howarth

144

Page  2,  line  28  [Clause  3],  after ‘objectives’, insert—

‘(aa)

complies with the regulatory principles as set out in section 2 of the

Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, and’.

Mr David Heath

David Howarth

145

Page  72,  line  15  [Clause  138],  at end insert ‘or a higher sum which the Lord

Chancellor may by order prescribe.’.

Mr David Heath

David Howarth

146

Page  120,  line  6  [Schedule  1],  after ‘Chancellor’, insert ‘with the approval of the

Lord Chief Justice’.

Mr David Heath

David Howarth

147

Page  120,  line  9  [Schedule  1],  after ‘Chancellor’, insert ‘with the approval of the

Lord Chief Justice’.

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Revised 10 October 2007