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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2006 No. 60
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE
The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006
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Made |
14th February 2006 | |
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Laid before the Scottish Parliament |
16th February 2006 | |
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Coming into force |
10th April 2006 | |
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12(3) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 10th April 2006.
Application
2.
These Regulations shall apply only in relation to any case where an application for advice and assistance is made on or after 10th April 2006.
Amendment of the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996
3.
—(1) The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996[2] are amended in accordance with the following paragraph.
(2) In regulation 16(2)(b), for "£4,531" substitute "£4,653"[3].
HUGH HENRY
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
14th February 2006
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996 to provide that a solicitor's right to prior payment of fees and outlays out of any property recovered or preserved for a client in respect of advice and assistance shall not apply to the first £4,653 recovered or preserved by virtue of certain family proceedings (this sum is increased from £4,531).
Notes:
[1]
1986 c.47. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).back
[2]
S.I. 1996/2447, as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2002/495, 2003/163, 2004/49 and 2005/111.back
[3]
The previous figure in regulation 16(2)(b) was inserted by S.S.I. 2005/111.back
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21 February 2006
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