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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/381",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;\n“assisted person” means a person in receipt of legal aid in the proceedings in question;\n“child” means a person under the age of 16 years;\n“income” includes benefits and privileges, and the income of the person concerned includes any sum payable for the purpose of the maintenance of a child including any sum payable to him under the order of a court or under any agreement for that purpose;\n“legal aid” means “civil legal aid” within the meaning of section 13(2) of the Act;\n“maximum contribution” means the maximum amount of a person’s contribution to the Fund in respect of any proceedings;\n“opponent”, in relation to an application for legal aid, means a party, other than the applicant, interested in the proceedings for which legal aid is sought;\n“period of computation” means the period of 12 months next ensuing from the date of the application for legal aid, or such other period of 12 months as in the particular circumstances of any case the Board may consider to be appropriate;\n“person concerned” means the person whose disposable income, disposable capital, and maximum contribution are to be determined or redetermined or the person whose resources are to be treated as the resources of any other person, under these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1171",
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      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
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      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
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      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1049",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1904",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/381/regulation/3",
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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."
}