{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986-amendment-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/493",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986-amendment-regulations-2004",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations modify the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 to provide the following:–\n(a) section 4 is modified to allow the Scottish Legal Aid Board to pay into the Scottish Legal Aid Fund sums recovered from persons who have received financial or other assistance from a body of which they are a member, where they have also been in receipt of advice and assistance, civil legal aid or criminal legal aid under section 24 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986; and\n(b) section 15 is modified to implement Council Directive 2003/8/EC (O.J. No. L 26, 31.1.2003, p.41) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 7th February 2003 (O.J. No. L 32, 7.2.2003, p.15) which establishes common rules for legal aid in relation to cross border disputes. Section 15 is modified where it would otherwise be inconsistent with that Council Directive.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/493/note",
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  },
  "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."
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