PART 3Amendment of secondary legislation

Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 200213.

(1)

The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 200219 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 33(a) (payments out of property recovered or preserved: exceptions), after sub-paragraph (xii) insert—

“(xiii)

by way of universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012”.

(3)

In paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 (rules for computing disposable income), after sub-paragraph (f) insert—

“(g)

universal credit paid under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012”.

(4)

In paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 (rules for computing disposable capital), after “support allowance” insert “or universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012”.