Policing and Crime Act 2009

Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)

65 (1) Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 (community legal service: excluded services) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 2(3) (magistrates’ court proceedings in which advocacy may be funded as part of the Community Legal Service)—

(a) in paragraph (l) after “section” insert “47M,”, and

(b) after that paragraph (but before the following “and”) insert—

“(m) for the discharge or variation of an order under section 47M of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002,

(n) which relate to a direction under section 67D of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002,”.

(3) In paragraph 3(1) (certain Crown Court proceedings in which advocacy may be funded as part of the Community Legal Service)—

(a) after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) proceedings which relate to an order under section 47M authorising the detention of property;”, and

(b) after paragraph (d) insert—

“(da) proceedings which relate to an order under section 67A authorising an appropriate officer to realise property;

(db) proceedings which relate to a direction under section 67D;”.