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Scottish Statutory Instruments
Legal Aid And Advice
Made
1st March 2016
Coming into force
1st April 2016
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8A(1) and (1A) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 37(2) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions and Contributions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 and come into force on 1st April 2016.
2. Regulation 3 applies only in relation to a case where an application for advice and assistance is made on or after 1st April 2016.
3. After regulation 8 of the Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions and Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2011(2) (criminal advice and assistance: automatic availability in certain circumstances), insert—
8A. Section 11(2) of the Act is not to apply in respect of advice and assistance made available to a relevant client (within the meaning of section 8A(2) of the Act) in the circumstances referred to in regulation 8.”.
PAUL WHEELHOUSE
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
1st March 2016
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions and Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (“the principal Regulations”).
Section 11(2) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 makes clients liable to pay financial contributions towards the cost of advice and assistance. These Regulations amend the principal Regulations to provide that section 11(2) is not to apply to advice and assistance made available in the circumstances referred to regulation 8 of those regulations (which provides for the automatic availability of advice and assistance to a person who has a right of access to a solicitor in terms of section 15A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 or section 25A of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 or a person detained under section 26 of that Act).
The amendment to the principal Regulations applies only in relation to a case where an application for advice and assistance is made on or after the day on which these Regulations come into force.
1986 c.47. Section 8A was inserted by the Criminal Procedure (Legal Assistance, Detention and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 15), section 2(3) and amended, with the insertion of subsection (1A), by the Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Act 2013 (asp 3), section 17.
S.S.I. 2011/217; regulation 8 was amended, with the insertion of paragraphs (b) and (c), by S.S.I. 2011/1739.
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