The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2013

Saving and transitional provisions

8.  After 31st March 2013, in relation to a pre-commencement case—

(a) any reference to the Community Legal Service Fund(1) in any enactment and in the Funding Code, authorisations, directions and guidance made under Part 1 of the 1999 Act must be construed as a reference to the Lord Chancellor or, in relation to costs payable out of the Community Legal Service Fund, as a reference to costs payable by the Lord Chancellor in relation to funded services provided under the Community Legal Service;

(b) in paragraph 6.4 of Section 6 of Part 1 of the Funding Code (Funding Code: Criteria) the reference to “Central Budget” must be construed as a reference to the Lord Chancellor;

(c) any reference in the Funding Code, orders, regulations, authorisations, directions and guidance made under Part 1 of the 1999 Act to an Independent Funding Adjudicator appointed by the Commission must be construed as if it were a reference to an independent funding adjudicator appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 2(1) of the Act (arrangements); and

(d) any reference in the Funding Code, orders, regulations, authorisations, directions and guidance made under Part 1 of the 1999 Act to the Special Controls Review Panel appointed by the Commission must be construed as if it were a reference to the special controls review panel appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 2(1) of the Act.

(1)

Under section 5(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (repealed by S.I. 2013/453 (C. 19)), the Legal Services Commission was required to establish and maintain a fund known as the Community Legal Service Fund.