{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/533",
  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "Part I of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:—\n(a) there shall be inserted at the beginning of the first paragraph of the Table of Fees the following words:—\n“1 Subject to paragraph 3 of this Part,”;\n(b) under the heading “Interpretation”, there shall be substituted for the words “In this Table” the following:—\n“2 In paragraph 1 of this Part”; and\n(c) there shall be inserted at the end of Part I the following paragraph:—\n“Petition by debtor for sequestration\n3 The fees allowable to a solicitor for providing assistance by way of representation in relation to a petition by a debtor for the sequestration of his estate under section 5(2)(a) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 shall be—\n(a) £27.40 for any time spent by a solicitor appearing in court in connection with the petition; and\n(b) £45 for all other work in connection with the petition.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 3 is as substituted by S.I. 1992/373."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 66; section 5(2)(a) was amended by section 3(2) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/533/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:08.813251+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."
}