# The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1988, Regulation 4: Form of application


(1) In regulation 5 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted—
(a) at the end of regulation 5(1)(a) “, or, where the applicant on cause shown cannot sign the application, by a person authorised by the applicant, or, where the applicant is mentally disordered in terms of section 1(2) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, by the applicant’s legal representative”
(b) in regulation 5(1)(b), after the word “applicant” where it first appears, “, or, where the applicant in terms of the above sub-paragraph either cannot sign the application or is mentally disordered, by an authorised person or by the applicant’s legal representative,”.
(2) Regulation 5(1)(d) of the principal Regulations shall be deleted and the following sub-paragraph substituted:—
“(d) accompanied by a copy for each opponent of the statement referred to in sub-paragraph (b) above embodied in such form of intimation as the Board may require together with either the address of each opponent or each opponent’s solicitor or a statement that the whereabouts of the opponent are unknown following reasonable enquiry.”.
(3) In regulation 5(2) of the principal Regulations the words “signed by some responsible person who has knowledge of the facts, certifying that part of the application which relates to” shall be deleted, and there shall be substituted the word “itemising”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1171/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-no2-regulations-1988/regulation-4
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