The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Transitional Provisions

3.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies to an application that is made before the relevant date and has yet to be determined and has not been withdrawn on the relevant date.

(2) An application is to be treated on and after the relevant date as an application falling under the 2013 Regulations as amended by these Regulations.

(3) Where an application has been determined ahead of the relevant date, and regulation 5(1)(m) of the 2013 Regulations would have applied if it had been determined on or after that date, the individual is not liable to any further contributions payable under section 23 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 212 towards those other legal services.

(4) For the purpose of this regulation, an application is made on the date that it is—

(a) submitted to the Client and Cost Management System, or;

(b) received by the Director.

(5) In this regulation—

“the 2013 Regulations” means the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 2013;

“application” means an application for a determination in respect of civil legal services at an inquest;

“Client and Cost Management System” means the system used by the Director to manage applications for civil legal services;

“other legal services” are those services defined in regulation 19 of the Civil Legal Aid (Merits) Regulations 2013(1);

“the relevant date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force.

(1)

S.I. 2013/104.