{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-fees-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-fees-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/264",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-fees-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989",
  "text": "For regulation 6(3) and (4) substitute–\n“(3) There shall be allowed to the duty solicitor making, for an accused person in the sheriff court or district court, a preliminary plea to the competency or relevancy of the petition or complaint, or conducting any plea in bar of trial or any mental health proof, or any proof in mitigation or any proof of a victim statement, an additional fee to be calculated on the basis of the fees set out in Schedule 1, the amount of such additional fee to be such sum not exceeding £108.85 as shall form reasonable remuneration having regard to the additional work and time involved.\n(4) Where the duty solicitor represents an accused person before a court which has been designated as a youth court, or as a domestic abuse court, by the sheriff principal, the maximum fees prescribed in paragraph (3) shall not apply.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/264/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:30:56.461940+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."
}