The Legal Aid, Community Legal Service and Criminal Defence Service (Amendment) Regulations 2015
The Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) (“AJA”) and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) (“LASPO”) make provision for the determination of financial eligibility for legal aid and liability for contributions towards the cost of legal services. Regulations under the AJA and LASPO make provision for assessing an individual's financial resources for those purposes, including seeking information about the individual's receipt of prescribed benefits for the purposes of such determinations.
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Department
Made
23 Mar 2015
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Comes into force
TBC
Enabling power
The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7, 10, 17A, 25(8) and 26 of, and paragraphs 3B and 8(2) of Schedule 3 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999and sections 14(h), 21(2) and (3), 22(3)(f), 23(1) and (6) and 41(1) and (2) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
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