The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001

Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

4.—(1) Regulation 4 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (6), for “Schedule 1” there shall be substituted “Part 1 of Schedule 1”.

(3) At the end there shall be inserted–

(9) Where a solicitor represents an assisted person in a court which has been designated as a drug court by the sheriff principal–

(a)Part 1 of Schedule 1 shall not apply to those proceedings; and

(b)where that assisted person has been remanded in custody at or subsequent to the first calling at the case and is at any time during that remand under 21 years of age, there shall be payable in addition to the fixed payments specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 a payment of £100..