(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st September 1987.
(2)In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1987().
After regulation 4 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation:–“4A 1 Subject to paragraph (2) accounts prepared in respect of fees and outlays allowable to solicitors shall be submitted to the Board not later than 3 months after the date of conclusion of the proceedings in respect of which that legal aid was granted.2 The Board may accept accounts submitted in respect of fees and outlays later than the 3 months referred to in paragraph (1) if they consider that there is a special reason for late submission.”
In the provisions of the principal Regulations listed in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, for the amounts of the fees specified in those provisions and set out opposite in column 2 of Schedule 1, there shall be substituted the amounts specified opposite in column 3 of that Schedule.
(1)For paragraph (3) of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–“3 For the purposes of paragraph (2) of this regulation reasonable remuneration shall be calculated as follows–a there shall be fees of £19.80, £7.65, £4.35 and £1.75 for the work described in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively of Schedule I or such proportion of those fees as is prescribed in the description of the work;b where an exceptional amount of copying proves necessary a fee of 10 pence shall be paid for each page copied of whatever size.”
(2)For Schedules 1 and 2 to the principal Regulations (Tables of Fees of Solicitors in proceedings in the High Court and in the sheriff and district courts) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
The amendments to the principal Regulations made by regulations 2, 3, 4 and 5 of these Regulations shall apply only to fees and outlays in respect of proceedings concluded on or after 1st September 1987.