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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 617

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

  Made 28th February 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 2nd March 2001 
  Coming into force 1st April 2001 

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 34 of the Legal Aid Act 1988[1], having consulted the Magistrates's Courts Rule Committee, hereby makes the following Regulations: - 

     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

     2. In regulations 54(4) and 89(a) of the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989[2] for the words "clerk to the justices", in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words "justices' chief executive".


Irvine of Lairg,
C.

28th February 2001


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 to transfer the administrative functions of justices' clerks under the Regulations to justices' chief executives in line with sections 90 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives) and 91 (accounting etc. functions of chief executives) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 which make corresponding transfers in primary legislation.

Notes:

 [1] 1988 c. 34; see the definition of "regulations" in section 43. Section 34 is repealed by section 106 of, and Part I of Schedule 15 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) but this repeal is subject to the saving in article 5 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/774).back

[2] S.I. 1989/339. The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1994/1822.back


ISBN 0 11 028902 1


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 16 March 2001

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