The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

4.  In regulation 17–

(a) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following new paragraph:–

“(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the time limit within which any act is required or authorised to be done may, for good reason, be extended;–

(a) in the case of acts required or authorised to be done under regulation 15 or 16 by a taxing master or the High Court as the case may be;

(b) in the case of acts required or authorised to be done by a solicitor or counsel under any other regulation, the appropriate authority.”;

(b) in paragraph (2) and the first place where it occurs in paragraph (3) for the words “the Chief Taxing Master” there shall be substituted “a taxing master”.