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

Amendment of the Magistrates’ Courts Fees Order 2008E+W

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

20.  In Schedule 2 to the Magistrates’ Courts Fees Order 2008(1)—

(a)in paragraph 1(1)—

(i)in the definition of “child care costs”, for “the Criminal Defence Service (Financial Eligibility) Regulations 2006” substitute “Part 3 of the Criminal Legal Aid (Financial Resources) Regulations 2013”;

(ii)in the definition of “the Independent Living Funds”, for “has the meaning given in the Criminal Defence Service (Financial Eligibility) Regulations 2006” substitute “means any payment made from the funds listed at regulation 20(2)(b) of the Criminal Legal Aid (Financial Resources) Regulations 2013”;

(iii)omit the definition of “the Funding Code”;

(iv)omit the definition of “LSC”; and

(b)in paragraph 1(2)(a), for “who is in receipt of funding provided by the LSC for the purposes of the proceedings for which a certificate has been issue under the Funding Code” substitute “for whom civil legal services, for which a certificate has been issued under the Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012, have been made available under arrangements made for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act for the purposes of the proceedings”.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. para. 20 in force at 1.4.2013, see reg. 1