Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986

3 (1) Nothing in this Act shall affect any legal aid under the 1967 Act or advice and assistance under the 1972 Act in respect of which an application has been determined before the appointed day ; and, notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of these Acts, they and any schemes, regulations, orders or rules of court made under them shall continue to have effect for the purposes of such legal aid or advice and assistance.

(2) For the purposes of -sub-paragraph (1) above, where the 1967 Act or the 1972 Act or any such scheme, regulation, order or rule of court—

(a) requires or enables anything to be done by the Law Society or any of its committees or by any person on its behalf; or

(b) requires or enables the person in receipt of such legal aid or advice and assistance to do anything in relation to the Law Society,

that thing shall, on and after the appointed day, be required or, as the case may be, enabled to be done by or in relation to the Board.

(3) Any payments which are required to be made into or out of the Old Fund in connection with such legal aid or advice and assistance shall, on and after the appointed day, be made into or out of the Fund ; and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, any reference in the 1967 Act or the 1972 Act to the Old Fund shall be construed as a reference to the Fund.