{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-scope-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-scope-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/997",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Assistance (Scope) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-scope-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance (Scope) Regulations 1989",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 7(3), for the words from “the hearing of” to “Magistrates' Courts Act 1980” there shall be substituted “committal proceedings”.\n(2) For regulation 7(4) there shall be substituted the following:—\n“(4) Part III also applies to ABWOR given to a party to proceedings in a magistrates' court where he is before the court as a result of a failure—\n(a) to pay a fine or other sum which he was ordered to pay; or\n(b) to obey an order of the court,\nand such failure is likely to lead to his being at risk of a term of imprisonment being fixed in his case (whether at the hearing for which ABWOR is given or subsequently).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.I. 1995/1987."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/997/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:22.698384+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."
}