{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/690",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;\n“the 1995 Act” means the Children (Scotland) Act 1995;\n“assisted person” means a person who has been granted legal aid under section 29 of the Act;\n“child” and “relevant person” have the meanings given by section 29(12)(a) of the 1986 Act;\n“child protection order”, “child assessment order” and “exclusion order” have the meanings given by section 29(12)(b) of the 1986 Act;\n“counsel” includes a solicitor-advocate;\n“junior counsel” includes a junior solicitor-advocate;\n“legal aid” means legal aid under section 29 of the Act;\n“right of audience” means in relation to a solicitor, a right of audience in the Court of Session, the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which a solicitor has by virtue of section 25A (rights of audience in specified courts) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980;\n“senior counsel” includes a senior solicitor-advocate, except in paragraph (2) below;\n“solicitor-advocate” means a solicitor, whether instructed by another solicitor or not, when and only when he is exercising his right of audience or acting in connection with the exercise of such a right and “junior solicitor-advocate” and “senior solicitor-advocate” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (2) below;\nand, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a solicitor shall not include a solicitor when acting as solicitor-advocate.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a solicitor-advocate shall be–\n(a) a senior solicitor-advocate, where he is undertaking work equivalent to that which would be done by a senior counsel in a case where the Board has authorised the employment of senior counsel under regulation 10(1)(a) or (2) below; and\n(b) a junior solicitor-advocate, where he is undertaking work equivalent to that which would be done by a junior counsel, whether or not the Board has authorised the employment of senior counsel in the case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 29 was substituted by the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, (section 92)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 46; section 25A was inserted by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40), section 24."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/312",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid (Supreme Court) (Scotland) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/690/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:22.742005+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."
}