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Regulation 10 Amendment of the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), regulation 11 is amended as follows:–

(a)

for paragraph (2) substitute–

“(2)

When assessing the fee payable to a solicitor in respect of legal aid the Board may have regard to any payment, or payments, made to account under advice and assistance in relation to the same matter and, where the work in respect of which such payment, or payments, is made might reasonably have been carried out under legal aid, it may reduce the amount of the fee payable accordingly.”; and

(b)

omit paragraphs (3) and (4).

(2)

Regulation 11 is amended by paragraph (1) only insofar as it relates to payments to solicitors.