The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No.7) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1903 (C.53) (S.157)

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, SCOTLAND

The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No.7) Order 1991

Made

22nd August 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 75(2) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No.7) Order 1991.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

“the Act” means the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990.

Commencement

3.  The provisions of the Act which are specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall, insofar as they are not then in force, come into force on 26th August 1991, but, where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any provision in column 2 of that Schedule, that provision shall come into force on that day only for that purpose.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

22nd August 1991

Article 3

SCHEDULE The provisions of the Act which come into force on 26th August 1991

Column 1	Column 2
Section 74	Only for the purpose of bringing into force the provisions of Schedules 8 & 9 to the Act specified or referred to in this Schedule
In Schedule 8, paragraph 36(6)
In Schedule 9, the repeal specified in the table below

TABLE

REPEAL

Chapter	Short Title	Extent of Repeal
1988 c. 34	The Legal Aid Act 1988	In paragraph 3 of Schedule 4, sub-paragraph (c).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 26th August 1991 as the date for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 namely:–

(a) section 74 of and paragraph 36(6) of Schedule 8 to the 1990 Act, which amend section 17 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 47); and

(b) the provisions in Schedule 9 to the Act which repeal paragraph 3(c) of Schedule 4 to the Legal Aid Act 1988.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force by commencement orders made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of commencement	S.I. No
Sections 63, 72, 74 (partially), 75 and Schedules 8 & 9 (partially)	1.12.1990	1990/2328
Sections 64, 65, 74 (partially) and Schedules 8 & 9 (partially)	1.1.1991	1990/2624
Section 69	1.3.1991	1991/330
Sections 68, 74 (partially) and Schedule 9 (partially)	1.4.1991	1991/330
Sections 16, 23, 34 (partially), 35, 44, 73 (partially), 74 (partially) and Schedules 1 (partially), 3, 4 and 8 (partially)	1.4.1991	1991/822
Sections 61 and 62 and Schedules 6 & 8 (partially)	1.4.1991	1991/850
Sections 24, 30, 33, 34 (partially), 43, 74 (partially) and Schedules 8 & 9 (partially)	3.6.1991	1991/1252
Section 74 (partially) and Schedule 9 (partially)	15.8.1991	1991/1252

(1)

1990 c. 40.