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The Criminal Defence Service (Representation Orders and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2006

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LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION, ENGLAND AND WALES

These Regulations empower the Legal Services Commission (“the Commission”), instead of the court, to grant a right to publicly funded representation in criminal proceedings in magistrates’ courts where it does not already have that power (regulation 3). They take effect from 2nd October 2006, when the relevant amendments to the Access to Justice Act 1999 made by the Criminal Defence Service Act 2006 come into force.