The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1989

Made: 14th August 1989

Laid before Parliament: 17th August 1989

Coming into force: 31st August 1989

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 33(2) and (3) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 31st August 1989.

• (2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987[^f00002].

Amendment of principal Regulations

2

For Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (table of fees allowable to solicitors) there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations.

3

The amendments to the principal Regulations made by regulation 2 of these Regulations shall apply only to work done on or after 31st August 1989.

SCHEDULE — NEW SCHEDULE 3 TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Signed

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 14th August 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the provisions of the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2 and the Schedule substitute a new Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations so as to increase the detailed fees allowable to solicitors in respect of work done in connection with the provision of legal advice and assistance or assistance by way of representation by around 9% with the exception of the fee at Part I paragraph (a) which remains unchanged. The minimum fee which a solicitor may claim on the basis of the detailed fees contained in Schedule 3 Part II is increased from £15.00 to £25.00 and the unit of time is amended from the proportionate part of an hour to each quarter hour or part thereof. These amendments will apply only to work done on or after 31st August 1989.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 47

[^f00002]: S.I. 1987/382, as amended by S.I. 1987/883 and 1356, 1988/489 and 1131 and 1989/506

[^f00003]: S.I. 1988/110