# The Legal Advice and Assistance (Scope) (Amendment) Regulations 1997, Regulation 3: Amendments to the Legal Advice and Assistance (Scope) Regulations 1989


(1) In regulation 7(3), for the words from “the hearing of” to “Magistrates' Courts Act 1980” there shall be substituted “committal proceedings”.
(2) For regulation 7(4) there shall be substituted the following:—
“(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—
(a) to pay a fine or other sum which he was ordered to pay; or
(b) to obey an order of the court,
and 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).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/997/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-scope-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3
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