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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Advice and Assistance (Financial Limit) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007 No. 248
4. For regulation 3 (financial limit) substitute–
“There is substituted in the place of the sum of £50 specified in section 10(2) of the Act as originally enacted–
(a)in a case to which regulation 4 of these Regulations applies–
(i)where the advice and assistance or assistance by way of representation relates to a civil matter which is a distinct matter or to a civil matter which is not distinct but following application to the Scottish Legal Aid Board is to be treated as if it were so, the sum of £180; and
(ii)in any other case, the sum of £150; and
(b)in a case to which regulation 4 of these Regulations does not apply–
(i)where the advice and assistance or assistance by way of representation relates to a children’s matter, a civil matter which is a distinct matter or a civil matter which is not distinct but following application to the Scottish Legal Aid Board is to be treated as if it were so, the sum of £95;
(ii)where the advice and assistance or assistance by way of representation relates to a civil matter not falling within sub paragraph (i), the sum of £35; and
(iii)in any other case, the sum of £80.”.
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