Regulation 2 Interpretation

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg.2 made by Legal Aid (Children) 1994 reg.4(a)
reg.2 (defn of counsel) substituted by Legal Aid (Children) 1994 reg.4(b)
reg.2 (defns of junior counsel and junior) replaced by Legal Aid (Children) 1994 reg.4(b)
reg.2 (defn of rights of audience solicitor) replaced by defn of right of audience (defn of senior counsel) subst (defn of solicitor-advocate) added by Legal Aid (Children) 1994 reg.4(c)
reg.2(2) added by Legal Aid (Children) 1994 reg.4(c)
reg.2 (defns of counsel, junior counsel, junior, rights of audience solicitor and senior counsel) added by Legal Aid (Children) 1993 reg.3

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

“the Act” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;
“the 1968 Act” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968^f1;
“assisted person” means a person who has been granted legal aid under section 29 of the Act;
“child” means a child as defined in section 30(1) of the 1968 Act^f2;
“legal aid” means legal aid under section 29 of the Act;
“parent” means a parent as defined in section 94(1)^f3 as read with section 30(2) of the1968 Act.

Annotations

f1: 1968 c. 49.
f2: Section 30(1) was amended by the Education (Scotland) Act 1969 (c. 49), Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 5.
f3: The definition of “parent” in section 94(1) was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 4, Part I.