The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 2001

• Citation: S.I. 2001/3735
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 3rd December 2001.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, a reference to a regulation by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 .

Section 3 Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989

The following shall be substituted for regulation 99(4):

(4) Where interest is payable by the assisted person pursuant to the provisions of regulation 96 or 97:

(a) it shall run from the date when the charge is first registered;

(b) the applicable rate shall be:

(i) 8% per annum until 31st March 2002;

(ii) thereafter, 1 percentage point above the Bank of England base rate current on 1st April 2002;

(c) subject to sub-paragraph (d), the applicable rate shall be varied on 1st April of each subsequent year so that it remains at the rate of 1 percentage point above the Bank of England base rate then current; and

(d) the variation set out in sub-paragraph (c) shall take place only if the application of the new base rate has the effect of varying the base rate previously applicable by 1 percentage point or more.

Section 4 Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989

(1) In regulation 113(4), for “47.24(2)” there shall be substituted “52.3 ”.

(2) In regulation 113(6), for “a notice of appeal” there shall be substituted “an appeal notice”.

(3) In regulation 113(7), for “notice of appeal” there shall be substituted “an appeal notice”.