The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/2226
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 2nd October 2000.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations a reference to any regulation or Schedule by number alone means the regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 .

Section 3 Transitional provisions

These Regulations shall apply to applications for legal aid made on or after 2nd October 2000, and applications before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not come into force.

Section 4 Amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

In the Arrangement of Regulations, after the entry for regulation 3 there shall be inserted:—

(3A) Cases where assessment of financial resources is not required.

Section 5 Amendments to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989

After regulation 3 there shall be inserted the following new regulation:—

Cases where assessment of financial resources is not required

(3A) In the circumstances set out in regulation 4(2) and (3) of the Legal Aid Act 1988 (Modification) Regulations 2000 the following provisions of these Regulations shall not apply:—

(a) regulation 11(3);

(b) regulation 13;

(c) regulation 14(7);

(d) Part III;

(e) Schedules 3 and 4.