The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/883
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 5th June 1987.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987 .

Section 3 Amendment of principal Regulations

At the end of paragraph (1) of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs–

(c) to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, invalidity benefit, retirement pension,death grant, maternity benefit, widow’s benefit, child’s special allowance, attendance allowance, invalid care allowance, mobility allowance, guardian’s allowance, injury benefit, disablement benefit or industrial death benefit paid under the Social Security Act 1975 ;

(d) to child benefit paid under the Child Benefit Act 1975 ;

(e) to allowances and benefit paid under the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 ;

(f) to any rate rebate or rent rebate or rent allowance paid under Part II of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 ;

(g) to one-half of any redundancy payment within the meaning of Part VI of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 recovered or preserved for the client;

(h) to any payment of money in accordance with an order made under section 136 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 by the Employment Appeal Tribunal;

(i) to any dwelling, household furniture or tools of trade recovered or preserved for the client as a result of advice or assistance given to him by the solicitor.

Section 4 Amendment of principal Regulations

In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations–

(a) in Part I for “£75.75” there shall be substituted “£78.80”; and

(b) in Part II for “£2.20”, “£14.10” where it occurs twice, “£7.05” and “£28.80” there shall be substituted “£2.30”, “£14.80” in each case, “£7.40” and “£29.60” respectively.