{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/47",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 5 below, civil legal aid shall not be available in relation to proceedings at first instance under the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987, or Part 2 or 3 of the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 17)or Part 8 of the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3) other than proceedings in connection with an application under section 1(1) or 3(1) of that Act of 1987 to a Lord Ordinary or to the sheriff in an ordinary cause.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II paras. 4, 5 added by Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 18, SIF 45:2), ss. 98, 108(2), Sch. 1 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted (30.12.2002) by Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 17), s. 44(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 para. 4 inserted (23.11.2009) by Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3), ss. 226, 227(3), Sch. 5 para. 15(a) (with s. 223); S.S.I. 2009/369, art. 3(2)(3), Sch. 1 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted (30.12.2002) by Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 17), s. 44(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1987 c.18 (45:2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/47/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:56.156299+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."
}