{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-2002/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-2002/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/494",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which resources of spouse not to be taken into account and resources of cohabitees",
  "text": "(1) The resources of a person’s spouse shall not be treated as his or her resources if–\n(a) the spouse has a contrary interest in the dispute in respect of which application for legal aid is made; or\n(b) the Board is satisfied that the person and the spouse are living separate and apart.\n(2) For the purposes of section 42 of the Act, two persons living together as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex shall be treated as if they were spouses of each other.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(2) substituted (7.4.2003) by The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/49), reg. 4 (with reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/494/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:24.195189+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."
}