The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/533
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Section 2 Interpretation

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

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 5(2) of the principal Regulations, there shall be substituted for the words “the right of a minor” the words “any right of a child”.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

Part I of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:—

(a) there shall be inserted at the beginning of the first paragraph of the Table of Fees the following words:—

(1) Subject to paragraph 3 of this Part,

(b) under the heading “Interpretation”, there shall be substituted for the words “In this Table” the following:—

(2) In paragraph 1 of this Part

(c) there shall be inserted at the end of Part I the following paragraph:—

Petition by debtor for sequestration

(3) The fees allowable to a solicitor for providing assistance by way of representation in relation to a petition by a debtor for the sequestration of his estate under section 5(2)(a) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 shall be—

(a) £27.40 for any time spent by a solicitor appearing in court in connection with the petition; and

(b) £45 for all other work in connection with the petition.

Section 5 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The amendments to the principal Regulations made by regulation 4 of these Regulations shall apply only to work done on or after 1st April 1993.