{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/969",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Excepted proceedings from civil legal aid",
  "text": "For paragraph 3 of Part II (Excepted Proceedings) of Schedule 2 to the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986() there shall be substituted the following:–\n“3 Civil legal aid shall not be available in relation to–\n(a) election petitions under the Representation of the People Act 1983();\n(b) simplified divorce applications under the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Session or the sheriff court;\n(c) small claims processes at first instance under section 35(2) of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971() (summary causes); and\n(d) petitions by a debtor for the sequestration of his estate under section 5(2)(a) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985().”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the 1986 Act was amended by S.I. 1988/2289."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1971 c. 58; section 35(2) was substituted by section 18(1) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 5(2)(a) amended by section 3(2) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/969/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:58:49.081412+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."
}