
2025 No. 118
Legal Complaints And Regulation
The Legal Complaints and Regulation (Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025
Laid before the Assembly in draft. 
Made 26th June 2025
Coming into operation 1st September 2025
The Department of Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(6) of the Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1 
This Order may be cited as the Legal Complaints and Regulation (Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2025.
Interpretation
2 
In this Order:
 “professional body” is –
(a) The Honourable Society of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland; or
(b) The Law Society of Northern Ireland;
 “the 2016 Act” means the Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016.
Penalty
3 
The maximum amount of a penalty the Legal Oversight Commissioner may require a professional body to pay under section 2(4) of the 2016 Act is £20,000.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 26th June 2025.
(L.S.)David Hughes
A senior officer of the Department of Finance
