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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-31",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2444",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Termination of legal aid other than on change of circumstances",
  "text": "The Board may cease to make legal aid available to an assisted person if it appears to it that the assisted person–\n(a) has required the proceedings to be conducted unreasonably so as to incur an unjustifiable expense to the Fund;\n(b) has failed to comply with any condition imposed under section 14(2) of the Act;\n(c) has failed without reasonable excuse to attend for an interview or to provide information or documents when so required under these Regulations; or\n(d) having been required in terms of regulation 17 above to make a contribution or instalment thereof, is more than one month in arrears in making any payment in respect of that contribution or instalment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2444/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:06.127002+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."
}