{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2447",
  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Client’s right to require taxation",
  "text": "(1) In any case where there is no such excess as is mentioned in regulation 18(1) and any fees and outlays in respect of the advice and assistance are payable by the client under the provisions of section 11 of the Act or are payable out of any expenses payable to the client or any property recovered or preserved for the client under the provisions of section 12 of the Act, the client may, if he is dissatisfied with the amount of those fees and outlays, require taxation of those fees and outlays by the auditor; the auditor shall tax the fees and outlays allowable to the solicitor in respect of the advice and assistance in accordance with regulation 17, and such taxation shall be conclusive of the amount of the fees and outlays so allowable.\n(2) In any case where the fees and outlays allowable to a solicitor in respect of advice and assistance in accordance with regulation 17 are less than any contribution paid by the client under section 11 of the Act, the solicitor shall refund the excess contribution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 17-19 excluded (1.10.1998) by The Scottish Legal Aid Board (Employment of Solicitors to Provide Criminal Legal Assistance) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1938), regs. 1(1), 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2447/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T03:30:57.921163+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."
}