{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/532",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following definitions:—\n(a) after the definition of “assisted person”:—\n““counsel” includes a rights of audience solicitor;\n“junior counsel” includes a rights of audience solicitor;”; and\n(b) at the end:—\n““rights of audience solicitor” means a solicitor having a right of audience in the High Court by virtue of section 25A (rights of audience in specified courts) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980; and\n“senior counsel” includes a rights of audience solicitor.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 46: section 25A was inserted by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40), section 24."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/532/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:09.848778+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."
}