{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-4A.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/4A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "Applications for advice and assistance: further provision",
  "text": "The requirement in regulation 4 for an application for advice and assistance to be signed does not apply in the case of—\n(a) a client to whom section 32 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (right to have a solicitor present) applies;\n(b) a person who is detained under section 41 or schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000;\n(c) a person who is detained under part 1 of schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019;\n(d) a person who is detained under section 27 of the National Security Act 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4A substituted (17.2.2021) by The Criminal Legal Aid and Advice and Assistance (Counter-Terrorism and Border Security) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/55), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4A(d) inserted (15.11.2023) by The Legal Aid and Advice and Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No. 4) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/313), regs. 1, 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2447/regulation/4A",
    "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."
}