The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002

Deprivation or conversion of resources

12.—(1) If it appears to the Board that a person has, with intent to reduce that person’s disposable income or disposable capital, whether for the purpose of making that person eligible for civil legal aid, reducing that person’s liability to pay a contribution towards civil legal aid or otherwise–

(a) directly or indirectly deprived that person of any resources; or

(b) converted any part of that person’s resources into resources which under these Regulations are to be wholly or partly disregarded or in respect of which nothing is to be included in determining the resources of that person,

the resources of which that person has so deprived himself or herself or which he or she has so converted shall be treated as part of that person’s resources or as not so converted, as the case may be.

(2) Where it appears to the Board that an assisted person has acted in the way described in paragraph (1) above it may make an amended determination in accordance with regulation 28.