Amendment of the Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions and Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2011

10.  For regulation 8 of the Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions and Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2011(1) (criminal advice and assistance: automatic availability in certain circumstances), substitute—

“8.   Advice and assistance is to be available without reference to the financial limits in section 8 of the Act for any person to whom section 32 (right to have solicitor present) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 applies.”.

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S.S.I. 2011/217; relevantly amended by S.I. 2011/1739, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22) and schedule 21, paragraph 50.