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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986/schedule-2/part-I/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986/schedule-2/part-I/paragraph-1.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/part/I/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Civil legal aid shall be available in relation to civil proceedings in—\nthe Supreme Court, in references, appeals and applications for special leave to appeal under paragraphs 10, 12 , 13(b), 32 and 33 of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998;\nthe Supreme Court, in appeals from the Court of Session;\nthe Court of Session;\nthe Lands Valuation Appeal Court;\nthe Scottish Land Court;\nthe Sheriff Appeal Court;\nthe sheriff court,\nand in relation to proceedings—\nbefore any person to whom a case is referred in whole or in part by a court mentioned above;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nin the Lands Tribunal for Scotland;\nin the Employment Appeal Tribunal;\nbefore the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission;\ncomprising an appeal to the Social Security Commissioners;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .;\nbefore the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland of the type described in paragraph 2A;\nin or with respect to an appeal to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland a (including an application for permission to appeal);\nbefore the Upper Tribunal of the type described in paragraph 3.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1: entry inserted (6.5.1999) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1042), art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 11(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 5), ss. 40, 148(1), Sch. 9 {para. 85(4)}; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1 substituted (8.2.2007) by Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 5), ss. 73(2), 82(2) (with s. 77); S.S.I. 2007/57, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40(4), 148(1), Sch. 9 para. 45; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1para. 1: entry inserted (1.1.2016) by The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), sch. 5 para. 14(4); S.S.I. 2015/378, art. 2, sch"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1: entry omitted (19.2.2001) by virtue of S.S.I. 2001/42, regs. 2, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1: entry added (19.2.2001) by S.S.I. 2001/42, regs. 2, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1: entries inserted (1.12.2002) by The Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/532), reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1: entry omitted (9.6.2010) by virtue of The Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Transfer of Tribunal Functions) (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/239), reg. 3(2) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1: entry inserted (1.12.2017) by The Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/397), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1: entry inserted (1.12.2016) by The Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/356), reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 1: entry inserted (9.6.2010) by The Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Transfer of Tribunal Functions) (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I 2010/239), {reg. 3(3)}"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:56.156299+00:00"
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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."
}