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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-fixed-payments-scotland-amendment-regulations-2004/schedule",
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  "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": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS SUBSTITUTED FOR THE TABLE SET OUT IN PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 OF THE CRIMINAL LEGAL AID (FIXED PAYMENTS) (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 1999",
  "text": "“SCHEDULE\nRegulation 4\nPART 1\nWhere professional services are provided in relation to proceedings in the District Court (other than where proceedings are set down to proceed before a Stipendiary Magistrate)\nWhere professional services are provided in relation to proceedings in the Sheriff Court (other than proceedings in a Court specified in Schedule 2) or the District Court (where proceedings are set down to proceed before a Stipendiary Magistrate)\nWhere professional services are provided in relation to proceedings in the Sheriff Court and those proceedings are brought in a Court specified in Schedule 2\n1. All work up to and including:\n(i) any diet at which a plea of guilty is made and accepted or plea in mitigation is made;\n(ii) the first 30 minutes of conducting a proof in mitigation, or a proof of a victim statement, other than in the circumstances where paragraph (2) below applies; and\n(iii) the first 30 minutes of conducting any trial\ntogether with any subsequent or additional work other than that specified in paragraphs 2 – 12 below.\n£300 (where criminal legal aid has been made available in the circumstances referred to in paragraphs 10 or 11 below £275)\n£500 (where criminal legal aid has been made available in the circumstances referred to in paragraphs 10 or 11 below £475)\n£550 (where criminal legal aid has been made available in the circumstances referred to in paragraphs 10 or 11 below £525)\n2. All work done in connection with a grant of legal aid under section 23(1)(b) of the Act including the first 30 minutes of conducting a proof in mitigation, or a proof of a victim statement.\n£25\n£50\n£50\n3. Conducting a trial or proof in mitigation for the first day (after the first 30 minutes).\n£50\n£100\n£100\n4. Conducting a trial or proof in mitigation for the second day.\n£50\n£200\n£200\n5. Conducting a trial or proof in mitigation for the third and subsequent days (per day).\n£100\n£400\n£400\n6. Representation in court at a continued diet following a victim statement having been laid before the court where the court determines sentence or fixes a proof of a victim statement, or adjourns such a proof without hearing evidence.\n–\n£50\n–\n7. Conducting a proof of a victim statement where there has been no trial or proof in mitigation for the first day (after the first 30 minutes), and thereafter for subsequent days (per day).\n–\n£200\n–\n8. Conducting a proof of a victim statement at a continued diet following a concluded trial or proof in mitigation (per day).\n–\n£200\n–\n9. Representation in court at a diet of deferred sentence.\n£25\n£50\n£50\n10. All work done where the accused is in custody and has tendered a plea of not guilty until determination of the application for legal aid.\n£25\n£25\n£25\n11. All work done by virtue of section 24(7)of the Act until determination of the application for legal aid.\n£25\n£25\n£25\n12. All work done in connection with a bail appeal under section 32 of the 1995 Act.\n£50\n£50\n£50\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/51/schedule",
    "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."
}