Access to Justice Act 1999

Valid from 01/02/2010

[F1 11A Pilot schemes E+W

(1) This section applies to the following instruments—

(a) any order under section 6(4) or 8(9),

(b) any regulations under section 6(7), 7, 10 or 11, and

(c) any regulations under section 22(5) having effect in relation to the Community Legal Service.

(2) Any instrument to which this section applies may be made so as to have effect for a specified period not exceeding 3 years.

(3) In the following provisions of this section—

(a) “pilot scheme” means any instrument which, in accordance with subsection (2), is made so as to have effect for a limited period;

(b) “connected instrument”, in relation to a pilot scheme, means an instrument made under the same provision as the pilot scheme.

(4) A pilot scheme may provide that its provisions, or the provisions of a connected instrument, are to apply only in relation to—

(a) one or more specified areas or localities;

(b) one or more specified descriptions of court or tribunal;

(c) one or more specified descriptions of service that may be provided as part of the Community Legal Service;

(d) one or more specified classes of person;

(e) persons selected—

(i) by reference to specified criteria; or

(ii) on a sampling basis.

(5) The period for the time being specified in a pilot scheme may be varied—

(a) if the period is one of less than 3 years, so that it becomes a longer period not exceeding 3 years;

(b) so that it becomes a period which exceeds 3 years by such amount as the Lord Chancellor thinks necessary for the purpose of securing that the pilot scheme remains in operation until the coming into force of a connected instrument that will have effect—

(i) generally, or

(ii) for purposes wider than those for which the pilot scheme has effect.

(6) A pilot scheme may make consequential or transitional provision with respect to the cessation of the scheme on the expiry of the specified period (or that period as varied under subsection (5)).]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 11A inserted (prosp.) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), ss. 149(5), 182 (with s. 180)