(a)for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following:—“1 The Board may make legal aid available for urgent or specially urgent work undertaken before an application is determined, if it is satisfied that at the time such work was undertaken there was probabilis causa litigandi and it appears to the Board that it is reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case that the applicant should receive legal aid, in either of the following circumstances—a where any step mentioned in paragraph (2) below has required to be taken as a matter of urgency to protect the applicant’s position; orb in any other circumstances where the Board is satisfied on application that special urgency exists.”
(b)in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (o), the following sub-paragraphs shall be inserted:—“p moving for or opposition to an exclusion order;q moving for or opposition to an order for a power of arrest; andr opposing a motion to vary a divorce decree quoadcustody.”
(c)in paragraph (3) for the words “14 days” there shall be substituted “28 days of commencement of said urgent work” .
After regulation 32(b) of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following:—“c in respect of any articles referred to in section 16 of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987() recovered or preserved from the effects of a grant of warrant sale of poinded goods, or any article released in terms of an order made by the sheriff following application made to him in terms of section 23 of said Act.”
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