LegalizeThe Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991
Made: 8th March 1991
Laid before Parliament: 12th March 1991
Coming into force: 1st April 1991
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 33 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 Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
- (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989[^f00002].
Amendment of principal Regulations
2
In the provisions of the principal Regulations listed in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, for the amounts of the fees specified in those provisions and set out opposite in column 2 of Schedule 1, there shall be substituted the amounts specified opposite in column 3 of that Schedule.
3
For Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
4
For the Table of Fees set out in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (Fees of Counsel) there shall be substituted the Table of Fees set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.
5
In regulation 10(2) of the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted at the end the word “thereon”.
6
The amendments to the principal Regulations made by regulations 2, 3 and 4 of these Regulations shall apply only to fees in relation to proceedings concluded on or after 1st April 1991.
SCHEDULE 1
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|
| (Provision of the principal Regulations) | (Old fee) | (New fee) |
| £ | £ | |
| Regulation 5(1) | 73.50 | 79.75 |
| 9.25 | 10.05 | |
| Regulation 6(1)(a) | 39.00 | 42.30 |
| 5.25 | 5.70 | |
| 84.45 | 91.65 | |
| Regulation 6(1)(b) | 39.00 | 42.30 |
| 5.25 | 5.70 | |
| 56.70 | 61.50 | |
| Regulation 6(2) and (3) | 95.55 | 103.65 |
SCHEDULE 2 — NEW SCHEDULE 1 TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS
SCHEDULE 3 — NEW TABLE OF FEES TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN SCHEDULE 2 OF THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS
Signed
James Douglas-Hamilton — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 8th March 1991
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”), so as to increase the fees allowable to solicitors by 8.5% (regulations 2 and 3) and to Counsel by 9% (regulation 4) for criminal legal aid given under the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986.
Regulation 5 makes a minor drafting amendment designed to clarify the intention behind the principal Regulations.
The increased fees will apply to proceedings concluded on or after 1st April 1991.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1986 c. 47.
[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/1491, amended by S.I. 1990/474 and 1035.
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