{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-assistance-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-assistance-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2026/267",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-assistance-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 4 (fixed payments allowable to solicitors)—\n(a) at the beginning of paragraph (1A), insert “Subject to paragraph (7B),”,\n(b) at the beginning of paragraph (1BA)(a)(ii), insert “subject to paragraph (1BA)(a)(iii)”,\n(c) after paragraph (1BA)(a)(ii), insert—\n“(iii) where work has been carried out in respect of more than one of paragraphs 1(a), (b) and 3 of Part 2 of Schedule 3, only the highest fee payable in respect of the work carried out is to be paid,”,\n(d) in paragraph (7)—\n(i) in the opening words, omit “there shall be paid to each of the solicitors who act for the assisted person in the relevant proceedings”,\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (a)—\n(aa) at the beginning, insert “there shall be paid to each of the solicitors who act for the assisted person in the relevant proceedings”,\n(bb) omit “paragraph 1 of” the second time it occurs,\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “13” substitute “10”,\n(iv) in sub-paragraph (c)—\n(aa) for “paragraph 1 of Schedule 1A” substitute “that schedule”,\n(bb) for “paragraphs 10, 10AA and 13” substitute “paragraphs 6, 7 and 10”,\n(v) for sub-paragraph (d), substitute—\n“(d) where Schedule 3 applies—\n(i) there shall be paid to each of the solicitors who act for the assisted person in the relevant proceedings an equal part of the total amount payable under paragraph 1 of Part 1, or as the case may be, paragraphs 1 or 3 of Part 2, of that Schedule;\n(ii) the amount payable under paragraphs 2 to 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 is payable to the solicitor who carries out the work described in those paragraphs;\n(iii) the amount payable under one or both of paragraphs 2 and 4 of Part 2 of Schedule 3 is payable to the solicitor who carries out the work described in those paragraphs.”,\n(vi) in sub-paragraph (f)(i), at the beginning insert “there shall be paid to each of the solicitors who act for the assisted person in the relevant proceedings”,\n(e) After paragraph (7A) insert—\n“(7B) Paragraph (1A) does not apply to payments made under paragraphs (7AA) or (7AB).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/491. Relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2008/240, S.S.I. 2010/237, S.S.I. 2013/92, S.S.I. 2014/366, S.S.I. 2023/135, S.S.I. 2026/107 and S.S.I. 2026/144."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.S.I. 2008/240 and relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2023/135 and S.S.I. 2026/107."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (1BA) was inserted by S.S.I. 2026/107."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph (7A) was inserted by S.S.I. 2008/240."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/267/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:28:59.881389+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."
}