Regulation 35

(1)

The Board is to arrange for a solicitor to be available for the purpose of providing to any child children’s legal aid under section 28C of the Act^f1 in respect of any proceedings to which that section applies.

(2)

Where the Board has arranged for a solicitor to be available in accordance with paragraph (1)—

(a)

section 31(1) of the Act^f2 does not apply; and

(b)

the children’s legal aid referred to must be provided only by the solicitor so made available.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 28C was inserted by section 191 of the 2011 Act.
f2: Section 31(1) was amended by section 62(1) and paragraph 12(8)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c.48).