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The Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1999

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1999-01-29

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Made: 29th January 1999

Coming into force: 16th February 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 9 and 37(1) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986¹ and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations, a draft of which has, in accordance with section 37(2) of that Act, been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 16th February 1999.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Regulations 1997².

Amendment of principal Regulations

2

In regulation 4 (Application of Part II of the Act to assistance by way of representation: proceedings under the 1995 Act) of the principal Regulations, at the end of paragraph (2)(g), the full stop shall be deleted and there shall be inserted:

; (h) under section 234E, 234F or 234G ³ in relation to the variation or revocation of a drug treatment and testing order, the review of a drug treatment and testing order, or, as the case may be, the failure to comply with any requirement of a drug treatment and testing order; and (i) under section 245E or 245F⁴ in relation to the variation or revocation of a restriction of liberty order, or, as the case may be, the failure to comply with any of the requirements of a restriction of liberty order.

Signed

Henry McLeish — Minister of State, The Scottish Office — 24th January 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by way of Representation) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 and provide for assistance by way of representation (ABWOR) to be made available in relation to proceedings under sections 234E to 234G, 245E and 245F of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (regulation 2).

Footnotes

1986 c. 47.

S.I. 1997/3070 as amended by S.I. 1998/972.

Sections 234E to 234G were inserted by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37), sections 92 and 93.

Sections 245E and 245F were inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48), section 5.

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