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An 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.
[25th July 1986]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
C1Act applied by Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33, SIF 48), 9(3)
C2Act applied (01.04.1992) by Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 60), s. 22 (3) (as substituted (01.04.1992) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14), ss. 99(1), 117(1), Sch. 13 para. 10); S.I. 1992/818, art. 2(a).
Act applied (1.4.1993) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), ss. 111 (9); S.I. 1993/575, art. 2(a)
Act applied (with modifications) (S.) (15.3.1996) by S.I. 1996/716, art. 24(2)
Act applied (1.9.2001) by 2001 c. 17, s. 6(3)(b) (with ss. 16(5), 78); S.I. 2001/2161, art. 2
Act modified (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2447, reg. 7(1), Sch.2
E1Act: except s. 18(3) extends only to Scotland see s. 46(4).
Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986