PART 11Scotland

Amendment of the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002

38.—(1) The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “income” insert—

“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance);.

(3) In regulation 33(a)(v) (payments out of property recovered or preserved: exceptions) after “the 1992 Act” insert “, an income-related employment and support allowance”.

(4) In Schedule 2 (rules for computing disposable income) in paragraph 5 after sub-paragraph (e) add—

(f)an income-related employment and support allowance..

(5) In Schedule 3 (rules for computing disposable capital) in paragraph 7 after “(payable under the Jobseekers Act 1995)” insert “or an income-related employment and support allowance”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2002/494. Regulation 33 was amended by S.S.I. 2007/59.