Legislative basis for policy on public interest complaints made by the SLCC

2A Complaints initiated by the Commission 

(1) In addition to receiving a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint mentioned in section 2(1), the Commission may itself initiate a complaint against a practitioner which, had it been received from a person mentioned in section 2(2), would be a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint. 

(2) Section 2(1A) applies to a complaint under subsection (1) as it applies to a complaint referred to in section 2(1). 

(3) References in this Part (other than in this section) and in sections 47 to 52B to a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint include references to a conduct complaint or a regulatory complaint that is initiated by the Commission under subsection (1). 

(4) The Commission may not initiate a complaint under subsection (1) if it would not be an eligible complaint in accordance with any provision in rules made under section 32(1).

Schedule 1, paragraph 13(2) (delegation of functions)

(aa) a decision under section 2A(1) to initiate a complaint to be taken only by— 

(i) any of its committees, or 
(ii) one of the Commission’s members.