Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999 (“the Principal Regulations”) to provide the following:
(a)there shall be a fixed payment of £50 for each appearance on behalf of an assisted person (or £25 where the appearance is in the District Court other than before a stipendiary magistrate), in respect of a youth court hearing in consideration of a community supervision order. This provision was previously inserted into the principal Regulations by the Criminal Legal Aid (Youth Courts) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/249), and omitted from the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/51);
(b)there shall be a fixed payment of £50 in respect of work done in connection with appeals under section 201(4) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 against the refusal of bail, or against bail conditions imposed. This provision was previously inserted into the principal Regulations by the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. 2002/247) and omitted from the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2004.