{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-representation-duty-solicitor-remuneration-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-representation-duty-solicitor-remuneration-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/443",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Representation (Duty Solicitor) (Remuneration) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-representation-duty-solicitor-remuneration-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:—\n“the 1974 Act” means the Legal Aid Act 1974;\n“the 1982 Act” means the Legal Aid Act 1982;\n“bank holiday” means a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;\n“duty day” means a day during which a duty solicitor is present at a magistrates' court in accordance with a scheme;\n“duty solicitor” means a solicitor who is present at a magistrates' court in accordance with a scheme;\n“the 1982 Regulations” means the Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1982;\n“remuneration” means any sum payable to a duty solicitor under section 1 of the 1982 Act;\n“scheme” means a scheme made under section 15 of the 1974 Act and section 1 of the 1982 Act which provides for the making of arrangements in accordance with which advice and representation is provided by solicitors in attendance at magistrates' courts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1197; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1049, 1984/112, 1986/273, 444, 1515, 1835 and 1987/369 made on 4th March 1987."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/443/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:41.660272+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."
}