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Statutory Instruments
LEGAL SERVICES, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
9th August 2005
Laid before Parliament
19th August 2005
Coming into force
1st November 2005
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditional Fee Agreements (Revocation) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st November 2005.
2. Subject to regulation 3, the Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations 2000(3) (the “CFA Regulations”), the Collective Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations 2000(4) (the “CCFA Regulations”), the Conditional Fee Agreements (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003(5), and the Conditional Fee Agreements (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2003(6) are revoked.
3.—(1) The CFA Regulations shall continue to have effect for the purposes of a conditional fee agreement entered into before 1st November 2005.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to a collective conditional fee agreement as if there were substituted for a reference to the CFA Regulations a reference to the CCFA Regulations.
Signed
Catherine. M. Ashton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Date 9th August 2005
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations revoke the Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/692), the Collective Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2988), the Conditional Fee Agreements (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I.2003/1240) and the Conditional Fee Agreements (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3344) in respect of conditional fee agreements and collective conditional fee agreements entered into on or after 1st November 2005.
Parties may enter into Conditional Fee Agreements and Collective Conditional Fee Agreements on or after that date based on the primary legislation.
1990 c. 41. Section 58 was substituted and section 58A inserted by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22), section 27. Section 119 is cited because of the definition of “prescribed”.
Article 4, Schedule 1 and paragraph 8(1)(c) of Schedule 2 of the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887).
S.I. 2000/692.
S.I. 2000/2988.
S.I. 2003/1240.