{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-fees-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/276",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-fees-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Fee for one counsel only",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 3(e) of the notes on the operation of Schedule 2, for “sub-paragraph (ea)” substitute “sub-paragraphs (ea) and (eb)”.\n(2) After paragraph 3(ea) of those notes insert—\n“(eb) a fee, under Part 1 or 3 of the Table of Fees, is to be allowed to one counsel only in respect of—\n(i) a diet of deferred sentence, except where there is in contemplation the imposition of any of the following—\n(a) a mandatory or discretionary life sentence;\n(b) an order for lifelong restriction;\n(c) any disposal under Part 6 of the 1995 Act (mental disorder),\nor where there is a hearing of evidence in mitigation; and\n(ii) a continued preliminary hearing, except where designated as a hearing at which any of the following matters is intended to be heard—\n(a) a preliminary minute;\n(b) a preliminary issue;\n(c) a devolution minute;\n(d) an application under section 275 of the 1995 Act;\n(e) a petition to recover documents under a specification of documents where the petition is opposed or likely to involve substantive legal argument,\nor an evidential hearing or any other hearing involving substantive legal argument;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/276/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:42:38.561188+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."
}