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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/631",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1987 by–\n(1) introducing a provision whereby a person whose application for legal aid is in respect of a claim for personal injuries, shall be eligible for legal aid if the applicant’s disposable income does not exceed £7,000 and legal aid may be available if his disposable capital does not exceed £8,000 (regulation 5);\n(2) omitting regulation 12 of the 1987 Regulations so that a child’s resources are separately assessed and are no longer taken to include sums payable for his maintenance (regulation 6);\n(3) amending regulation 13 of the 1987 Regulations to allow account to be taken of resources of which an applicant has deprived himself for whatever reason (regulation 7);\n(4) introducing a provision for the redetermination of a child’s disposable income, disposable capital or maximum contribution where a determination resulting in a contribution has been made prior to the commencement of these regulations (regulation 8);\n(5) preserving the dependants' allowances applicable at the beginning of the computation period (regulation 9);\n(6) allowing an additional disregard of capital on a sliding scale in respect of persons of pensionable age where their disposable income (excluding investment income) is below the free income limit (regulation 10);\n(7) allowing a disregard in respect of capital payments made in relation to the incident which has led to the litigation (eg disaster fund payments) (regulation 11).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/631/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:23:17.646077+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."
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