The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1094 (S.108)

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, SCOTLAND

The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Made

26th April

Comimg into force

30th April 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 36(2)(b) and 37(1) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Paliament:

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 30th April 1991.

(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986.

2.  For the yearly sum of £2,645 specified in section 17(2)(a) of the Act(2), there is hereby substituted the yearly sum of £2,860.

3.  Regulation 4 of the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1990(3) is hereby revoked.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

26th April 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increasethe financial income limit of eligibility for civil legal aid under the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986, to make legal aid available without payment of a contribution to those with disposable incomes of less than £2,860 a year (instead of £2,645).

(1)

1986 c. 47; section 36(2)(b) was amended by the Legal Aid Act 1988 (c. 34), Schedule 4, paragraph 6.

(2)

The existing figure referred to in regulation 2 was inserted in section 17 of the Act by virtue of S.I. 1990/839.

(3)

S.I. 1990/839.