The Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2004

• Citation: S.I. 2004/597
• Sections: 3

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.

(2) In this Order, “ the Order ” means the Community Legal Service (Funding) Order 2000 and an article or a Schedule referred to by number alone means the article or Schedule so numbered in the Order.

Section 2

This Order shall apply in relation to work done on or after 1st April 2004, and in relation to work done before that date the Order shall have effect as if this Order had not been made.

Section 3

(1) In article 5(3A), for “payment shall be” substitute “payment shall, subject to paragraph (7B), be”.

(2) In article 5(4A), for “payment shall be” substitute “payment shall, subject to paragraph (7B), be”.

(3) After article 5(7A) insert—

(7B) The maximum rate applicable in relation to any specialist immigration work shall be 5% greater than the maximum rate which would be applicable to that work but for this paragraph.

(7C) In paragraph (7B)—

“maximum rate” means a rate specified by this article as the rate that may not be exceeded in relation to payment by the Commission under a contract for the provision of funded services;

“specialist immigration work” means work carried out by a member of the Legal Services Commission’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme who is accredited to level 3 of that Scheme where—

immigration is authorised as a specific category of work in the schedule to the contract with the Commission under which it is provided; and

that work is within the category of immigration.