- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 4 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 3 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person3
Trader1
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts
Value Added Tax Regulations 1995
416 duties
Companies Act 2006
243 duties
Companies Act 1985
85 duties
What it requires
Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.010
Financial limit. (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Do not exceed £60 cost limit for legal aid advice without Board approvalTrader
s.025
Supervision of registered solicitors and firms.
Regulated
- Comply with the code of practice for criminal legal assistanceAny Person
s.028
Duty to comply with code of practice
Regulated
- Solicitors/firms on children's register must follow code of practiceAny Person
s.035
Power of Board to require information.
Prosecution
- Fail to provide information to Legal Aid BoardAny Person
Unlimited fine
86 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.004
Power of Board to make grants for certain purposes
s.008
Criminal advice and assistance: automatic availability in certain circumstances
s.011
Clients' contributions: specified criminal assistance by way of representation
s.012
Payment of fees or outlays otherwise than through clients’ contributions. (opens in a new tab)
s.012
Register of advice organisations
s.012
Advice and assistance
s.023
Legal aid in solemn proceedings
s.025
Criminal Legal Assistance Register.
s.025
Legal aid in respect of appeals under section 303A of the 1995 Act.
s.025
Legal aid in references, appeals or applications for special leave to appeal to the Supreme Court
s.025
Code of practice in relation to criminal legal assistance.
s.025
Removal of name from Register following failure to comply with code.
s.025
Further provision as to removal of name from Register.
s.025
Publication of Register.
s.028
Power of Board to employ solicitors to provide criminal assistance.
s.028
Children's legal aid
s.028
Circumstances where children's legal aid automatically available
s.028
Availability of children's legal aid: child
s.028
Availability of children's legal aid: relevant person
s.028
Availability of children's legal aid: appeals relating to deemed relevant person
s.028
Conditions
s.028
Board to establish review procedures
s.028
Board's power to require compliance with conditions
s.028
Contributions to the Fund
s.028
Power of Scottish Ministers to extend or restrict types of proceedings before children's hearings in which children's legal aid to be available
s.028
Power of Scottish Ministers to provide for children's legal aid to be available to other persons in relation to court proceedings
s.028
Power of Scottish Ministers to provide for children's legal aid to be available in relation to proceedings under the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019
s.028
Register of solicitors and firms eligible to provide children's legal assistance
s.028
Code of practice
s.028
Non-compliance with code of practice
s.028
Further provision as to removal of name from register
s.028
Publication of register
s.033
Contracts for the provision of criminal legal assistance.
s.033
Contracts for the provision of children's legal assistance
s.033
Regulations about contributions for criminal legal assistance
s.033
Claim for interim payment
s.033
Recovery where interim payment excessive
s.035
Information about legal services
s.035
Power of Board to enter premises and investigate.
s.035
Suspension of payments to solicitor.
s.041
Regulations in relation to criminal legal assistance.
s.043
Applications of Act to services provided under Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions)
(Scotland) Act 1990.
Schedules
Schedules
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s.sch001
The Board shall be a body corporate with a common...
s.sch001
(1) Where a person becomes an employee of the Board...
s.sch001
(1) Any dispute as to whether an offer under sub-paragraph...
s.sch001
(1) Subject to anything in regulations made by the Secretary...
s.sch001
The Board may pay to each of its members and...
s.sch001
Nothing done by the Board for the purpose of securing...
s.sch001
(1) The Board is not an emanation of the Crown...
s.sch001
Subject to paragraphs 4 and 5 below any member of...
s.sch001
(1) The chairman or a member may resign office by...
s.sch001
The Secretary of State may terminate the appointment of a...
s.sch001
(1) The Board may— (a) pay to its members such...
s.sch001
(1) The Board shall, after consultation with, and subject to...
s.sch001
(1) Subject to paragraph 9 below, the Board may appoint,...
s.sch001
(1) The Board shall, not later than such date as...
s.sch001a
(1) An organisation which satisfies the Board that it complies...
s.sch001a
(1) An application for entry on the register of advice...
s.sch001a
(1) In determining any application for entry on the register...
s.sch001a
(1) The Board shall prepare a code of practice (an...
s.sch001a
The Board is to monitor— (a) the provision of advice...
s.sch001a
(1) Where it appears to the Board (whether or not...
s.sch001a
(1) A decision by the Board to refuse an application...
s.sch002
Proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland
s.sch002
Civil legal aid shall not be available in relation to...
s.sch002
In paragraph 3A— (a) “ actions for personal injury ”...
s.sch002
Subject to paragraph 5 below, civil legal aid shall not...
s.sch002
Nothing in paragraph 4 above shall preclude any third party...
s.sch003
(1) In section 31(1) of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement)...
s.sch003
(1) Section 43A of that Act shall be amended as...
s.sch003
In Part III of Schedule 1 to the House of...
s.sch003
In Part III of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland...
s.sch003
In section 75(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 for...
s.sch003
In section 66(6) of the Race Relations Act 1976 for...
s.sch003
In section 35(4) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 for...
s.sch003
(1) Section 51 of that Act shall be amended as...
s.sch003
In section 9B(4) of the Tenants’ Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act...
s.sch004
(1) On the appointed day the Legal Aid (Scotland) Fund...
s.sch004
Subject to paragraph 1 above, on the appointed day all...
s.sch004
(1) Nothing in this Act shall affect any legal aid...
s.sch004
(1) Any application for legal aid duly made under the...
s.sch004
Any arrangements made by the Law Society under section 12...
s.sch004
(1) In this Schedule “the appointed day” means the day...
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