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Part 1Coroners etc

Amendments of Access to Justice Act 1999

51Public funding for advocacy at certain inquests

(1)Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) (Community Legal Service: excluded cases) is amended as follows.

(2)In paragraph 2, at the end insert , and

(5)proceedings at an inquest under Part 1 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 to which sub-paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of paragraph 4 applies.

(3)After paragraph 3 there is inserted—

4(1)This sub-paragraph applies to an inquest into the death of a person who at the time of the death—

(a)was detained at a custodial institution or in a custody area at a court or police station,

(b)was detained at a removal centre or short-term holding centre,

(c)was being transferred or held in pursuance of prison escort arrangements or immigration escort arrangements,

(d)was detained in secure accommodation,

(e)was a detained patient, or

(f)was in service custody.

(2)This sub-paragraph applies to an inquest into the death of a person that occurred in the course of the person’s arrest by a constable or otherwise in the course of the execution or purported execution of any functions by a constable.

(3)This sub-paragraph applies to an inquest into the death of a person who at the time of the death was subject to service law by virtue of section 367 or 369(2)(a) of the Armed Forces Act 2006 and was engaged in active service.

(4)Paragraph 2(5) does not authorise the funding of the provision of services to anyone who is not an interested person within section 47(2)(a) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.

(5)In this paragraph—