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2.—(1) The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 24(2) (payments to be disregarded from calculation of disposable income or gross income) insert—
“(3) In calculating the disposable income or the gross income of the individual, the Director may disregard any payment that meets all of the following conditions—
(a)the payment was made to an individual who is a victim of the fire at Grenfell Tower;
(b)the payment was made to that individual because the individual is a victim of the fire at Grenfell Tower, and
(c)the payment was not made directly to the individual by an individual known personally to the individual.
(4) In this regulation—
“fire at Grenfell Tower” means the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017;
“Grenfell Tower” means Grenfell Tower, Grenfell Road, London, W11 1TG;
“victim of the fire at Grenfell Tower” means an individual who is any one or more of the following—
an individual living in Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017;
an individual present in Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017 at the time of the fire at Grenfell Tower;
an individual who was injured in, or as a result of, the fire at Grenfell Tower;
an individual living in a building in the immediate vicinity of Grenfell Tower that was evacuated as a result of the fire at Grenfell Tower;
a member of the family of an individual who died in the fire at Grenfell Tower or is missing in the fire at Grenfell Tower (and an individual is a member of the family of such an individual if the requirements of section 10(6) of the Act are met), or
a personal representative of an individual who died in the fire at Grenfell Tower.”.
(3) Regulation 40 (certain payments to be disregarded)(2) is renumbered as paragraph (1) of that regulation.
(4) After regulation 40(1), as so renumbered, insert—
“(2) In calculating the disposable capital of the individual, the Director may disregard any payment that meets all of the following conditions—
(a)the payment was made to an individual who is a victim of the fire at Grenfell Tower;
(b)the payment was made to that individual because the individual is a victim of the fire at Grenfell Tower, and
(c)the payment was not made directly to the individual by an individual known personally to the individual.
(3) In this regulation, “fire at Grenfell Tower”; “Grenfell Tower”, and “victim of the fire at Grenfell Tower” have the same meaning as in regulation 24(4).”.
Regulation 40 has been amended by S.I. 2015/643, 2015/838, 2016/211 and 2016/708.
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