PART IIAPPLICATIONS FOR LEGAL AID

Procedure on application for review

16.—(1) An application for review shall be made by giving notice in Form 3 to the appropriate area committee within 14 days of the date of notification of the refusal to make a legal aid order and the applicant shall send a copy of Form 3 to the justices' clerk of the magistrates' court to which the first application for legal aid was made.

(2) An application under paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by the following documents–

(a)a copy of the completed Form 1 returned by the court under regulation 12(2); and

(b)a copy of the notice of refusal received under regulation 12.

(3) The time limit within which the application for review is to be made may, for good reason, be waived or extended by the area committee.

(4) The justices' clerk and the applicant shall supply such further particulars, information and documents as the area committee may require in relation to an application under paragraph (1).