{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-fixed-payments-scotland-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-fixed-payments-scotland-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-fixed-payments-scotland-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "In regulation 2–\n(a) in paragraph (1) (interpretation)–\n(i) after the definition of “assisted person” insert–\n““continued diet” means a diet which takes place on a separate date from the diet at which a victim statement is laid before the court;”,\n(ii) after the definition of “excluded proceedings” insert–\n““proof in mitigation” includes those diets where a proof in mitigation takes place at the same time as a proof of a victim statement;” and\n(iii) at the end insert\n““victim statement” means a statement made for the purposes of section 14 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003”.\n(b) for paragraph (3) substitute–\n“(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, a trial, proof in mitigation or proof of a victim statement shall be taken to commence when the first witness is sworn.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 2(3) was inserted by S.S.I. 1999/48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/51/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:33:01.973890+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."
}