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The Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2001

S.S.I. 2001/42 · Made 15 February 2001

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 15th February 2001

Coming into force 19th February 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred bysections 13(4) and 37(1) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986f1, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, herebymake the following Regulations, a draft of which has, in accordance withsection 37(2) of that Act, been laid before and approved by resolution ofthe Scottish Parliament:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1986 c. 47. The functions of the Secretary of State weretransferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of theScotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Courts in which civil legal aid is available
  3. 3Courts in which civil legal aid is available
  4. 4Courts in which civil legal aid is available
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 19th February 2001.

2Courts in which civil legal aid is available

Part I of Schedule 2 (courts in which civil legal aid is available) tothe Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986f1 shall be amended inaccordance with the following regulations.

3Courts in which civil legal aid is available

In paragraph 1–

(a)

the words from “in the Restrictive Practices Court” to “of thatAct);” shall be omitted;

(b)

at the end there shall be added–

  • “;

  • before the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commissionf1”.

4Courts in which civil legal aid is available

In paragraph 2, for “177” there shall be substituted “234”.

Signature

JAMES R WALLACE

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

15th February 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend Part I of Schedule 2 to the Legal Aid(Scotland) Act 1986, which sets out those civil proceedings for which civillegal aid is available. The Regulations add proceedings before theProscribed Organisations Appeal Commission, established under section 5 ofthe Terrorism Act 2000 (regulation 3).

The Regulations also remove a reference to the Restrictive PracticesCourt (regulation 3), and update a reference to the EEC Treaty (regulation4).