Regulation 3 Application
(1)
For the purposes of these regulations, the references in section 33(3A) and (3B) of the Act M1 to criminal legal assistance relate to relevant criminal legal aid.
(2)
These Regulations shall apply–
(a)
in respect of relevant criminal legal aid first made available in terms of sections 22 or 24(7) of the Act, only in relation to any case where criminal legal aid is first so available on or after 1st April 1999; and
(b)
in respect of relevant criminal legal aid first made available otherwise, only in relation to any case where an application for criminal legal aid is granted on or after that date.
Annotations
Marginal citations
- M1
Section 33(3A) and (3B) were inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c.48), section 51.