Legal Aid Equality Outcome Teing (Scotland) Act 2017 1

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SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

Legal Aid Equality Outcome Testing (Scotland) Act 2017

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The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 13th
October 2017 and received Royal Assent on 15th October 2017

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to support equality outcome testing for Scottish legal aid.

1 Short title
The short title of this Act is the Legal Aid Equality Outcome Testing (Scotland) Act
2017.

2 Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after Royal Assent.

3 Amendment of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986

In section 3 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (duties of the Board), after
subsection (6) insert
(7) The Board shall produce an annual Equality Impact Assessment, noting the
state of eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality of
opportunity, promoting diversity within the Board and ensuring equal access
to quality accessible services and information about legal aid; and this
assessment is to be made public and provide an accurate snapshot of the
mentioned and enumerated goals, and a workable path towards improvement.