SCHEDULE 15 The Office for Legal Complaints
Legal Services Act 2007 (2007 c 29) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 15 The Office for Legal Complaints

Section 114

Membership

1

(1)     The OLC is to consist of the following members—

(a)     a chairman appointed by the Board with the approval of the Lord Chancellor, and

(b)     at least 6, but not more than 8, other persons appointed by the Board after consultation with the chairman.

(2)     The Lord Chancellor may by order amend sub-paragraph (1) by substituting, for the limit on the maximum number of persons for the time being specified in paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph, a different limit.

2

(1)     In appointing members of the OLC, the Board must ensure that a majority of the members of the OLC are lay persons.

(2)     The chairman must be a lay person.

(3)     In this Schedule a reference to a “lay person†is a reference to a person who has never been—

(a)     an authorised person in relation to an activity which is a reserved legal activity,

[(aa)     an authorised person (within the meaning given in section 31 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (authorised persons)) in relation to regulated claims management activity (within the meaning given by section 417(1) of that Act (definitions)),]

(b)

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