Pre-commencement application for funding under the Community Legal ServiceI15

1

An application is a new application for funding referred to in regulation 3(b) if either paragraph (2) or (3) applies.

2

This paragraph applies where a further application for funding is made after 31st March 2013 and the following conditions are met—

a

funded services have been provided as a result of a pre-commencement application for funding under the Community Legal Service (“the original application”);

b

the further application for funding relates to the same case for which the funded services were provided as a result of the original application; and

c

the further application for funding is—

i

for a different level of service to that provided as a result of the original application; and

ii

the different level of service falls within the same Variety of Funded Work as the level of service for which funding was provided as a result of the original application.

3

This paragraph applies where a further application for funding under the Community Legal Service is made after 31st March 2013 and the following conditions are met—

a

funded services that are Certificated Work have been provided as a result of a pre-commencement application for funding under the Community Legal Service (“the original application”);

b

the further application for funding relates to the case for which the funded services were provided as a result of the original application; and

c

as a result of the further application for funding, it is decided under paragraph 35.1 of Part C of Part 2 of the Funding Code (Funding Code: Procedures) that the certificate should cover more than one set of proceedings.