{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-44.json",
  "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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Restrictive Practices Court",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation the expression “the proper officer of the court” has the same meaning as in the Restrictive Practices Court Rules 1976.\n(2) Where it appears to the Board that an application for legal aid relates to proceedings in the Restrictive Practices Court which are likely to be conducted in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, it shall transmit the application forthwith to the Law Society in England and Wales or to the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland, as the case may be, and shall notify the applicant and his solicitor that it has done so.\n(3) Where it appears to the Board doubtful whether the proceedings to which an application for a certificate relates will be conducted in the Restrictive Practices Court when sitting in Scotland, or in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, it shall request the proper officer of the court to determine that question and that determination shall be binding upon the Board.\n(4) Where legal aid has been made available for proceedings in the Restrictive Practices Court, and there is a change of circumstances regarding the conduct of proceedings in that, by direction of the Court, they will be wholly or partly conducted in England and Wales or Northern Ireland–\n(a) legal aid shall continue to be available;\n(b) for any proceedings in England and Wales, the assisted person shall continue to be represented by the solicitor and counsel, if any, who represented him in Scotland; and any counsel subsequently appointed to represent him may be selected from either Scotland or England and Wales;\n(c) for any proceedings in Northern Ireland, the assisted person may continue to be represented for the proceedings in Northern Ireland by the solicitor who represented him in Scotland, and that solicitor shall instruct as his agent a solicitor on the panel maintained by the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland of solicitors willing to act for assisted persons before the Restrictive Practices Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1897."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2444/regulation/44",
    "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."
}