
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 15th October 2001.
2 
The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999 shall be amended in accordance with the following regulations.
3 
In the definition of “excluded proceedings” in regulation 2(1)–
(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted–“, except where those proceedings are before a court which has been designated as a drug court by the sheriff principal”; and
(b) after sub-paragraph (h) there shall be inserted–“;
(i) proceedings under section 9 of the Extradition Act 1989;
(j) proceedings under section 5 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001”.
4 

(1) Regulation 4 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.
(2) In paragraph (6), for “Schedule 1” there shall be substituted “Part 1 of Schedule 1”.
(3) At the end there shall be inserted–“
(9) Where a solicitor represents an assisted person in a court which has been designated as a drug court by the sheriff principal–
(a) Part 1 of Schedule 1 shall not apply to those proceedings; and
(b) where that assisted person has been remanded in custody at or subsequent to the first calling at the case and is at any time during that remand under 21 years of age, there shall be payable in addition to the fixed payments specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 a payment of £100.”.
5 
Schedule 1 shall be renamed Part 1 of Schedule 1 and at the end there shall be inserted–“
PART 2

 Where professional services are provided in relation to proceedings in a sheriff court which has been designated as a drug court by the sheriff principal

1 
All work done under section 22(1)(c) of the Act up to and including the first appearance of an assisted person; £100

2 
All work done (other than work done in terms of paragraph 1) in connection with any appearance of an assisted person (per appearance); £50.”.
JAMES WALLACE
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
10th September 2001