{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-5.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": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Computation of disposable capital, disposable income and maximum contribution",
  "text": "(1) After the word “Regulations” where it first appears in regulation 10 of the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted the words “, and in particular in Regulation 10A below”.\n(2) After regulation 10 of the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted the following:–\n“10A (1) Where the subject matter of the dispute, in respect of which the application for legal aid has been made, consists of a claim in respect of personal injuries, legal aid shall be available to a person whose disposable income does not exceed £7,000 a year, but a person may be refused legal aid where –\n(a) his disposable capital exceeds £8,000; and\n(b) it appears to the Board that he could afford to proceed without legal aid.\n(2) In this regulation “personal injuries” includes any death and any disease or other impairment of a person’s physical or mental condition.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1049",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/631/regulation/5",
    "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."
}