Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 2758
LEGAL SERVICES, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Legal Services Complaints Commissioner (Maximum Penalty) Order 2004
Made
24 October 2004
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament pursuant to section 52(9) of the Access to Justice Act 1999( 1 );
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 52(5) of that Act, and now vested in him( 2 ), makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Legal Services Complaints Commissioner (Maximum Penalty) Order 2004 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
2. The maximum amount of any penalty under section 52(3) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 is whichever is the lesser of—
(a) £1,000,000; and
(b) 1 per cent. of the amount which is specified as the total income from all sources of the professional body in that body’s most recent audited accounts at the date on which the penalty is imposed.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Lammy
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Dated 24th October 2004
1999 c. 22 , amended by S.I. 2003/1887 .
The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (2003/1887) .