The Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1987

Matters of special urgency

15.—(1) Where an applicant seeks legal aid under section 24 or section 25 of the Act in a matter of special urgency, the Board may, if it thinks fit, make criminal legal aid available to him notwithstanding that it has not been satisfied–

(a) in the case of an application under section 24 of the Act, as to the matters specified in subsection (1) of that section; and

(b) in the case of an application under section 25 of the Act, as to the matters specified in subsection (2) of that section.

(2) Where criminal legal aid is made available under paragraph (1) above, the Board shall–

(a) specify that it is available only for such limited purposes as it thinks appropriate in the circumstances;

(b) require the assisted person as soon as practicable to satisfy it that the requirements of section 24 or, as the case may be, section 25 of the Act are met;

(c) in the case of the assisted person not so satisfying it, cease to make criminal legal aid available to him.