http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/47/section/3Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986An Act to establish the Scottish Legal Aid Board and the Scottish Legal Aid Fund; to make new provision in connection with the availability of criminal legal aid in Scotland; to repeal and re-enact with modifications certain enactments relating to legal aid and to advice and assistance in Scotland; and for connected purposes.1986-07-25texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-23Expert Participation2024-04-30 Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 4(2)(aba) (abb)Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007s. 75(2)s. 77s. 82(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 4(2)(ba)Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007s. 70(1)s. 77s. 82(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 4(3)(ca) (cb)Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007s. 75(3)s. 77s. 82(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 10(1A) (1B)Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007s. 69(3)s. 77s. 82(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 12C and cross-headingLegal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007s. 70(2)s. 77s. 82(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 17(2C)-(2I)Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007s. 75(4)s. 77s. 82(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 4(2)(aba)The Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (Modification and Consequential Provisions) Order 2011art. 5(2)(a)art. 2(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 4(2)(abb)The Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (Modification and Consequential Provisions) Order 2011art. 5(2)(b)art. 2(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 17(2DA)(2DB)The Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (Modification and Consequential Provisions) Order 2011art. 5(3)art. 2(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 9A 9BScottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Act 2013s. 18(2)s. 25(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 25AA(5)-(9)Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Act 2013s. 21s. 25(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 25AC 25ADScottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal Assistance Act 2013s. 20s. 25(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 21(1)(a)(iza)Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025sch. 5 para. 1(2)s. 116(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 21(5)Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025sch. 5 para. 1(3)s. 116(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 22(1)(df)Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025sch. 5 para. 1(4)s. 116(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 28B(3)(da)Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026s. 58(2)s. 70(2)Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986s. 28C(1)(da)Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026s. 58(3)(a)s. 70(2) Part I31The Board shall, from time to time, publish information as to the discharge of its functions in relation to legal aid and advice and assistance including the forms and procedures and other matters connected therewith.2The Board shall, from time to time, furnish to the Secretary of State such information as he may require relating to its property and to the discharge and proposed discharge of its functions.2AThe Board is, from time to time, to give the Scottish Ministers such information as they may require relating to the availability and accessibility of legal services in Scotland.3It shall be the duty of the Board to provide to the Secretary of State, as soon as possible after 31st March in each year, a report on the exercise of its functions during the preceding 12 months.4The Board shall have regard, in the exercise of its functions, to such guidance as may from time to time be given by the Secretary of State.5Guidance under subsection (4) above shall not relate to the consideration or disposal (whether in general or in respect of individual applications) of—aapplications for legal aid or advice and assistance;bsupplementary or incidental applications or requests to the Board in connection with any case where legal aid or advice and assistance has been made available.6For the purposes of subsection (2) above, without prejudice to the requirements of section 5 of this Act, the Board shall permit any person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State to inspect and make copies of any accounts or documents of the Board and shall furnish such explanation of them as that person or the Secretary of State may require.S. 3(2A) inserted (1.4.2011) by Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), ss. 141(c), 150(2); S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 3, sch.