UK Act of Parliament 1986 c. 47 United Kingdom

Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986

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?

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Any Person3 Trader1

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What it requires

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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 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

0 of 41 shown
41 other schedules
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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