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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-legal-aid-financial-conditions-scotland-regulations-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2008/9780110815121",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-legal-aid-financial-conditions-scotland-regulations-2008",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations increase certain financial limits of eligibility for civil legal aid under the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986.\nRegulation 3 increases income limits to make a person with a yearly disposable income of not more than £10,306 (increased from £10,074) eligible for civil legal aid. Regulation 5 increases, from £3,085 to £3,156, the yearly disposable income limit below which a person will be eligible for civil legal aid and will not have to pay a contribution.\nRegulation 4 increases the upper limit of disposable capital to £11,847 (increased from £11,402), above which civil legal aid may be refused if it appears the person can afford to proceed without it.\nIn regulation 6, the upper limit of disposable capital, above which a legally assisted person may be required to pay a contribution, is £7,147 (increased from £6,879).\nRegulation 8 revokes the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2008/9780110815121/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:38:46.043936+00:00"
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  "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."
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