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

(1)

The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999^f1 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)”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1999/491, as amended by S.I. 1999/1820 and S.S.I. 1999/48, 2001/307 and 2002/247.
f2: Section 22(1)(dd) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 47) was inserted by the Sexual Offences (Procedure and Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 9), section 2(2).