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Explanatory note

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These Regulations amend the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1987. The regulations–

(a)

substitute new definitions relating to solicitors who have a right of audience in the High Court of Justiciary (regulation 3) and revoke the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/532) which inserted defective definitions relating to such solicitors.; and

(b)

remove from the list of proceedings treated as distinct for the purposes of criminal legal aid certain proceedings to which assistance by way of representation is extended by regulation 3(b) of the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1000).