{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/384",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;\n“the 1968 Act” means the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;\n“assisted person” means a person who has been granted legal aid under section 29 of the Act;\n“child” means a child as defined in section 30(1) of the 1968 Act;\n“legal aid” means legal aid under section 29 of the Act;\n“parent” means a parent as defined in section 94(1) as read with section 30(2) of the1968 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 30(1) was amended by the Education (Scotland) Act 1969 (c. 49), Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The definition of “parent” in section 94(1) was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 4, Part I."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1994"
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      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1017",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/534",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/384/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:30:48.104577+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."
}