Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Prescribed Proceedings) Regulations 1997 so as to provide that criminal legal aid shall not be available for existing life prisoners, existing transferred life prisoners or transferred life prisoners who are the subject of a hearing to specify a notional punishment part (regulation 2).
The Regulations also provide that criminal legal aid shall be available for certain proceedings where those proceedings take place in a court which has been designated as a drug court by the sheriff principal (regulation 3).