{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-162",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/162",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "162",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In the following rules relating to legal aid, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act of 1986” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;\n“assisted person” means a person who is in receipt of criminal legal aid in the proceedings in question;\n“clerk of court” means clerk of justiciary, sheriff clerk, sheriff clerk depute or clerk of the district court, as the case may be;\n“court” means the High Court of Justiciary, a sheriff court or a district court, as the case may be:\n“the Regulations” means the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 47"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/307"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/110/section/162",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:46.518890+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}