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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/491",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002 so as to provide the following:–\n(a) that the Scottish Legal Aid Board may request directly from any applicant or assisted person, or a solicitor or counsel acting on behalf of an assisted person, any information, financial or otherwise, relating to a change in circumstances. If such request is not complied with the Board may suspend or withdraw legal aid, and further may recover any funds paid to the assisted person (regulations 3 and 4); and\n(b) to implement Council Directive 2003/8/EC (O.J. No. L 26, 31.1.2003, p.41) (“the Council Directive”), as corrected by a corrigendum published on 7th February 2003 (O.J. No. L 32, 7.2.2003, p.15). The Council Directive establishes common rules for legal aid in relation to cross-border disputes. These Regulations disapply certain of the regulations in the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002 where a person is applying for legal aid for the purposes of pursuing a cross-border dispute defined in the Council Directive (regulation 5).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/491/note",
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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."
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