Statutory Instruments
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, SCOTLAND
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
(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).
1986 c. 47; section 36(2)(b) was amended by the Legal Aid Act 1988 (c. 34), Schedule 4, paragraph 6.
The existing figure referred to in regulation 2 was inserted in section 17 of the Act by virtue of S.I. 1990/839.
S.I. 1990/839.