The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/1061
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 5th May 1994.

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

Section 2 Application

These Regulations shall apply only in relation to any case where an application for advice and assistance is granted on or after 5th May 1994.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 15 of the principal Regulations (payment of fees and outlays from property recovered or preserved)–

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) after (viii) there shall be inserted–

(ix) by way of child support maintenance under the Child Support Act 1991( );

(b) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted–

(2) The Board may authorise that the requirement created by section 12(3)(c) of the Act that, before recourse to the Fund, fees or outlays shall be paid to the solicitor out of any property which is recovered or preserved for the client shall not apply in relation to the whole or any part of any such property in any case where on application by the solicitor the Board are satisfied that–

(a) payment out of the property to which the requirement would otherwise apply would cause grave hardship or distress to the client; or

(b)

(i) the solicitor has taken all reasonable steps to obtain payment out of the property to which the requirement would otherwise apply; and

(ii) payment to the solicitor out of that property could only be effected with unreasonable difficulty or after unreasonable delay.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (assessment of disposable capital and disposable income) in paragraph 8(a)(ii) there shall be inserted after “paid” the words “by way of contributions to the National Insurance Fund”.