Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25)

Part 6 Legal aid and other payments for legal services

Community Legal Service

150 Excluded services: help in connection with business matters

(1) Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) (services excluded from the Community Legal Service) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1, omit paragraph (h) (matters arising out of the carrying on of a business) (but not the “or” following it).

(3) After paragraph 1 insert—

“1A Services consisting of the provision of help to an individual in relation to matters arising out of or in connection with—

(a) a proposal by that individual to establish a business;

(b) the carrying on of a business by that individual (whether or not the business is being carried on at the time the services are provided);

(c) the termination or transfer of a business that was being carried on by that individual.”