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Amendments to the Access to Justice Act 1999

3.—(1) Paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(2), after paragraph (e) insert “(ea) the family court,”.

(3) In sub-paragraph (3)(3)—

(a)in paragraph (a), omit the words from “section 22” to the end; and

(b)omit paragraphs (b) to (h).

(1)

1999 c. 22. Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 was repealed by section 39 of, and paragraph 51 of Schedule 5 to, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), subject to savings in S.I. 2013/534.

(2)

Sub-paragraph (1) was amended by section 125 of, and paragraph 19(1) of Schedule 15 and Part 1 of Schedule 16 to, the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11); section 116 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41); sections 40 and 146 of, and paragraph 68(3) of Schedule 9 and Part 5 of Schedule 18 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4); S.I. 2008/2833; and S.I. 2010/21.

(3)

Sub-paragraph (3) was amended by sections 83 and 85 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 8 and Part 9 of Schedule 9 to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19); section 2(3) of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (c. 24); section 456 of, and paragraph 36(3) of Schedule 11 to, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29); section 139 of, and paragraph 102 of Schedule 3 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38); section 261(1) of, and paragraph 156 of Schedule 27 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33); section 56 of, and paragraph 38 of Schedule 6 to, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22); and S.I. 2000/822.