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The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2002

S.S.I. 2002/442 · Made 25 September 2002

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 25th September 2002

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 27th September 2002

Coming into force 1st November 2002

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 33 and 41A of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986f1 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1986 c. 47. Sections 33(3A) and 41A were inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48), sections 51 and 54 respectively. Section 33(3C) to (3K) and section 33(3AA) to (3AC) were inserted by the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 7), sections 7 and 8 respectively. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st November 2002.

2Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

(1)

The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph.

(2)

In the definition of “excluded proceedings” in regulation 2(1), after sub-paragraph (j) there is inserted–

“(k)

proceedings in relation to which legal aid is only available by virtue of section 22(1)(dd)f2 of the Act (solicitor appointed by court for person accused of sexual offence)”.

Signature

R. J. SIMPSON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

25th September 2002

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999 to provide that fixed payment criminal legal aid shall not apply to proceedings where a court has appointed a solicitor to act for a person accused of a sexual offence.