The Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Financial Conditions and Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2011
These Regulations—amend the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (“the Act”) to increase the financial limits of eligibility for advice and assistance and civil legal aid;amend the Act to increase the financial thresholds beyond which a person may be required to make payments in respect of advice and assistance and contributions in respect of civil legal aid;prescribe the maximum amount of those payments and, in respect of income, contributions; andallow advice and assistance to be made available in certain circumstances without reference to the financial limits of eligibility.