Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

38 Abolition of Legal Services Commission E+W

(1) The Legal Services Commission ceases to exist.

(2) Schedule 4 (transfer of employees and property etc of Legal Services Commission) has effect.

(3) The Lord Chancellor must, as soon as practicable after subsection (1) comes into force—

(a) prepare a report on how the Legal Services Commission has carried out its functions in the final period,

(b) lay a copy of the report before Parliament, and

(c) once it has been laid, publish the report.

(4) The Lord Chancellor must, as soon as practicable after subsection (1) comes into force—

(a) prepare a statement of accounts for the Legal Services Commission for the final period, and

(b) send a copy of the statement to the Comptroller and Auditor General.

(5) The Comptroller and Auditor General must—

(a) examine, certify and report on the statement, and

(b) arrange for a copy of the statement and the report to be laid before Parliament.

(6) In this section—

• “the final period” means the period—

  (a)

  beginning with end of the last financial year for which the Legal Services Commission produced a report and accounts in accordance with paragraphs 14 and 16 of Schedule 1 to the Access to Justice Act 1999, and

  (b)

  ending immediately before the day on which subsection (1) comes into force;

• “financial year” means a period of 12 months ending with 31 March.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 38 wholly in force at. 1.4.2013; s. 38 not in force at Royal Assent, see s, 151(1); s. 38(2) in force at 4.3.2013 and s. 38(1)(3)-(6) in force at 1.4.2013 by S.I. 2013/453, arts. 2(a), 3(a)