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Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986

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17 Contributions, and payments out of property recovered.S

(1)Legally assisted persons may be required by the board to contribute to the Fund in accordance with this section in respect of any proceedings in connection with which they are granted civil legal aid.

(2)A legally assisted person’s contribution under this section shall be determined by the Board, and may include—

(a)if his disposable income exceeds [F1£3,156] a year, a contribution in respect of income which shall not be more than one- [F2third] of the excess (or such other proportion of the excess, or such amount, as may be prescribed by regulations made under this section); and

(b)if his disposable capital exceeds [F3£7,147], a contribution in respect of capital which shall not be more than the excess (or such proportion of the excess or such lesser amount as may be prescribed by regulations made under this section).

F4[(2A)Except in so far as regulations made under this section otherwise provide, any sum of money recovered under an award of or an agreement as to expenses in favour of any party in any proceedings in respect of which he is or has been in receipt of civil legal aid shall be paid to the Board.

(2B)Except in so far as regulations made under this section otherwise provide, where, in any proceedings, there is a net liability of the Fund on the account of any party, the amount of that liability shall be paid to the Board by that party, in priority to any other debts, out of any property (wherever situate) which is recovered or preserved for him—

(a)in the proceedings; or

(b)under any settlement to avoid them to bring them to an end.]

[F5(2C)Subsection (2D) below applies where, after applying sums paid to the Board under subsection (2A) above in respect of the expenses of any party in any proceedings—

(a)there is a surplus in the Fund on the account of the party; and

(b)the party received, in respect of the same proceedings, assistance from the Commission for Equality and Human Rights under section 28 of the Equality Act 2006 (power of the Commission to provide legal assistance).

(2D)The Board shall apply the surplus to pay to the Commission any sums due to it under section 29(2) of that Act (Commission's entitlement to recover expenses incurred in providing assistance) in respect of the assistance provided by it to the party.]

F6(3)–(8). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F1Word in s. 17(2)(a) substituted (7.4.2008) by The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/138), reg. 5 (with application as mentioned in reg. 2 and with reg. 7)

F2Word in s. 17(2)(a) substituted (12.4.1993) by virtue of S.I. 1993/970, reg. 3(b)

F3Word in s. 17(2)(b) substituted (7.4.2008) by The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/138), reg. 6 (with application as mentioned in reg. 2 and with reg. 7)

F5S. 17(2C)(2D) inserted (1.10.2007) by Equality Act 2006 (c. 3), ss. 40, 93(1), Sch. 3 para. 39(3) (with s. 92); S.I. 2007/2603, art. 2(d)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 17 excluded by S.I. 1987/381, regs. 46(2)(a), 47(2)(a)

C3S. 17(2B) excluded (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2444, reg. 33

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