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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/382",
  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Applications for advice and assistance",
  "text": "An application for advice and assistance, which shall be in such form as the Board may require, shall be signed by the client, or by a person who may apply on his behalf by virtue of regulation 5, and shall include such information as is necessary to enable the solicitor–\n(a) to determine the client’s disposable capital and either his disposable income or, where appropriate, whether he is in receipt of supplementary benefit or family income supplement; and\n(b) otherwise to satisfy himself as to the client’s eligibility to receive advice and assistance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1131",
      "affecting_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/752",
      "affecting_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1992"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/382/regulation/4",
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  },
  "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."
}