This Statutory Instrument has been made as a consequence of a defect in S.I. 2015/838 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

2015 No. 1408

Legal Aid And Advice, England And Wales

The Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(3)(f) and 41(1)(b) and (3)(c) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 20121.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 26th June 2015.

Amendment of the Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) Regulations 20132

In paragraph 23 of the Schedule to the Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) Regulations 20132, omit “section 17A of the Children Act 19893, section 49(3) of the Children and Families Act 20144 (personal budgets and direct payments),”.

Partial revocation of the Legal Aid, Community Legal Service and Criminal Defence Service (Amendment) Regulations 20153

Regulation 11 of the Legal Aid, Community Legal Service and Criminal Defence Service (Amendment) Regulations 20155 is revoked.

Shailesh VaraParliamentary Under Secretary of StateMinistry of Justice
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke regulation 11 of the Legal Aid, Community Legal Service and Criminal Defence Service (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/838) (“the amending Regulations”) and omits the amendment it purported to make to the Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/628) (“the Financial Resources Regulations”). The Financial Resources Regulations are made under section 22 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) (“the Act”). By virtue of section 41(7) of the Act, a statutory instrument which contains regulations made under section 22 of the Act may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by, a resolution of, each House of Parliament. The amending Regulations, by reason of the inclusion of regulation 11, did not comply with section 41(7) of the Act. To address this procedural error, these Regulations revoke regulation 11 of the amending Regulations and omit the words regulation 11 purported to insert in the Financial Resources Regulations.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.