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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-fixed-payments-scotland-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/491",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-fixed-payments-scotland-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these regulations, the references in section 33(3A) and (3B) of the Act to criminal legal assistance relate to relevant criminal legal aid.\n(2) These Regulations shall apply–\n(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\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 33(3A) and (3B) were inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c.48), section 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/107",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid and Assistance by Way of Representation (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/107",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid and Assistance by Way of Representation (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/240",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Legal Assistance (Fees and Information etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/240",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Legal Assistance (Fees and Information etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/491/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:02.343903+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."
}