The Civil Legal Aid (Merits Criteria and Information about Financial Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Amendment to the Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) Regulations 2013

3.  In paragraph 23 of the Schedule to the Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) Regulations 2013(1), after “regulations made under” insert “section 17A of the Children Act 1989(2), section 49(3) of the Children and Families Act 2014 (personal budgets and direct payments)(3),”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/628, amended by S.I. 2015/643. The present amendment was made by S.I. 2015/838 but that amendment was revoked by S.I. 2015/1408.

(2)

1989 c. 41. Section 17A was inserted by section 7(1) of the Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 (c. 16) and substituted by section 58 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15). It was further amended by Schedule 3, paragraphs 15 and 17, and Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21), Schedule 3, paragraph 6 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), Schedule 3, paragraphs 1 and 3 to the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23), Schedule 2, paragraph 1(b) to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5) and S.I. 2015/914.

(3)

2014 c. 6.