{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1126",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) At the end of regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following sentence:—\n““the references to advising and acting” in this paragraph shall include the services of the duty solicitor at any preliminary plea to the competency or relevancy of the petition or complaint and at any plea in bar of trial or any mental health proof.”.\n(2) In regulation 5(2) for the words “sub-paragraphs (a) or” and “sub-paragraphs (a) and” where they occur respectively there shall be substituted the word “sub-paragraph”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1126/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:04:24.084014+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."
}