Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986

1986 CHAPTER 47

An Act to establish the Scottish Legal Aid Board and the Scottish Legal Aid Fund; to make new provision in connection with the availability of criminal legal aid in Scotland; to repeal and re-enact with modifications certain enactments relating to legal aid and to advice and assistance in Scotland; and for connected purposes.

[25th July 1986]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Extent Information

E1 Act (except s. 18(3)) extends only to Scotland, see s. 46(4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Act applied by Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33, SIF 48), 9(3)

C2 Act applied by Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 60), s. 22 (3) (as substituted (1.4.1992) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14), ss. 99(1), 117(1), Sch. 13 para. 10; S.I. 1992/818, art. 2(a))

Act applied (1.4.1993) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), ss. 111 (9); S.I. 1993/575, art. 2(a)

Act applied (with modifications) (S.) (15.3.1996) by S.I. 1996/716, art. 24(2)

Act applied (1.9.2001) by 2001 c. 17, s. 6(3)(b) (with ss. 16(5), 78); S.I. 2001/2161, art. 2

C3 Act modified (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2447, reg. 7(1), Sch.2

C4 Act applied (1.1.2004) by Extradition Act 2003 (c. 41), ss. 183, 221; S.I. 2003/3103, art. 2 (with arts. 3, 4 (as amended by S.I. 2003/3312))

C5 Act amended by S.I. 1978/1910, art. 10, Sch. Pt. 1 (as amended (17.5.2004) by The European Communities (Services of Lawyers) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/186), art. 7(a))

C6 Act applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1907), reg. 16, Sch. 2 (as amended by S.I. 2010/2430, regs. 15, 17) [Editorial note: these Regulations revoke and supersede S.I. 2010/875]