The Legal Aid and Advice and Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Amendments to the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

7.—(1) The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) after the entry for “continued diet” insert—

““court holiday” means a day prescribed as such (including an additional court holiday) in accordance with section 8(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;”.

(b) after the entry for “excluded proceedings” insert—

““holiday court sitting” means a sitting of a sheriff court on a court holiday, a Saturday or a Sunday by virtue of an order under section 28 or 29 of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014;”.

(3) In regulation 4 (fixed payments allowable to solicitors)—

(a) in paragraphs (6) and (6ZA)(2), for “£108.15” substitute “£113.56”,

(b) in paragraph (9)(b), for “£108.15” substitute “£113.56”.

(4) In schedule 1—

(a) for the table of fees in Part 1 substitute the table of fees in Part 1 of schedule 15 of these Regulations,

(b) for the table of fees in Part 2 substitute the table of fees in Part 2 of schedule 15 of these Regulations.

(5) In schedule 1A for the table of fees substitute the table of fees in schedule 16 of these Regulations.

(6) In schedule 1B—

(a) for the table of fees in Part 1 substitute the table of fees in Part 1 of schedule 17 of these Regulations,

(b) for the table of fees in Part 2 substitute the table of fees in Part 2 of schedule 17 of these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1999/491; relevant amending instruments are S.S.I. 2001/307, S.S.I. 2002/247, S.S.I. 2003/249, S.S.I. 2004/51, S.S.I. 2004/126, S.S.I. 2004/263, S.S.I. 2005/93, S.S.I. 2006/234, S.S.I. 2008/240, S.S.I. 2010/237, S.S.I. 2011/162, S.S.I. 2014/366, S.S.I. 2015/337 and S.S.I. 2017/466, S.S.I. 2019/78, S.S.I. 2020/191 and S.S.I. 2021/56.

(2)

Paragraph 6ZA was inserted by S.S.I. 2011/162 and amended by S.S.I. 2021/56.