The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002

Applications on behalf of children

6.—(1) Without prejudice to any right of a child to apply under regulation 5 above, application on behalf of a child may be made by the child’s legal representative or by any person in whose care the child is, or by a person acting for the purposes of any proceedings as the child’s tutor or curator.

(2) An application by or on behalf of a child under the upper age limit of compulsory school age in terms of paragraph (1) above shall be determined in terms of Part III below.