Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 20132
1
The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 20132 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—
- a
an individual living in Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017;
- b
an individual present in Grenfell Tower on 14th June 2017 at the time of the fire at Grenfell Tower;
- c
an individual who was injured in, or as a result of, the fire at Grenfell Tower;
- d
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;
- e
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
- f
a personal representative of an individual who died in the fire at Grenfell Tower.
3
Regulation 40 (certain payments to be disregarded)3 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).