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The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1990

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1990-05-09

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Made: 9th May 1990

Laid before Parliament: 11th May 1990

Coming into force: 1st June 1990

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 1990 and shall come into force on 1st June 1990.

(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 1st June 1990.

SCHEDULE — NEW SCHEDULE 3 TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Signed

James Douglas-Hamilton — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 9th May 1990

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 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 7½% with the exception of the fees at Part I paragraphs (a) and (b)5; and Part II paragraphs 1E and 2 which remain unchanged. These amendments will apply only to work done on or after 1st June 1990.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 47.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1987/382; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/883 , 1988/1131 and 1989/1492.

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

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