The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992
These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1987 by—increasing the disposable income and disposable capital limits for persons who apply for legal aid in respect of claims for personal injuries (regulation 2);correcting and clarifying the occasions upon which legal aid may be made available for specially urgent work undertaken before an application for legal aid is determined (regulation 3);requiring prior approval of the Board when an unusually large expenditure is anticipated in a case (regulation 4);altering the grounds upon which cessation of legal aid applies and extending the grounds upon which there may be termination of entitlement to legal aid when the Board is satisfied that the assisted person has acted in specified ways and correcting and extending the occasions upon which the Board may recover amounts paid from the Fund (regulation 5);inserting a reference to disability working allowance among specified exceptions to the right to prior payment out of property recovered or preserved (regulation 6);deleting spent provisions with regard to the liability for expenses of an assisted person who is a child (regulation 7);inserting references to disability living allowance in addition to or in substitution for allowances payable or once paid under the Social Security Acts 1975-1986 (regulation 8); andsubstituting a new table of annual disposable income which is to assist in calculating the amount of capital to be disregarded in calculating the resources of pensioners (regulation 9).