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          Part I</Number><Title> Legal Services Commission</Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/22/part/I/crossheading/community-legal-service" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/part/I/crossheading/community-legal-service" NumberOfProvisions="10" id="part-I-crossheading-community-legal-service" RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictStartDate="2013-04-01"><Title> Community Legal Service</Title><P1group ConfersPower="true" RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictStartDate="2013-04-01"><Title> Services which may be funded.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/22/section/6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/section/6" id="section-6"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-2f41732bc1e6b77684868c7d05c1d17d"/>6</Pnumber><P1para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Pblock></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="key-2f41732bc1e6b77684868c7d05c1d17d" Type="F"><Para><Text>Ss. 1-26 omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2012/10" id="cozj3j8k3-00006" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2012" Number="10" Title="Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012">Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cozj3j8k3-00007" CitationRef="cozj3j8k3-00006" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2012/10/section/151/1" SectionRef="section-151-1">s. 151(1)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="cozj3j8k3-00008" CitationRef="cozj3j8k3-00006" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2012/10/schedule/5/paragraph/51/a" SectionRef="schedule-5-paragraph-51-a" Operative="true">Sch. 5 para. 51(a)</CitationSubRef>; <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2013/453" id="cozj3j8k3-00009" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2013" Number="453" Title="The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2013">S.I. 2013/453</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cozj3j8k3-00010" CitationRef="cozj3j8k3-00009" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2013/453/article/3/h" SectionRef="article-3-h">art. 3(h)</CitationSubRef> (with savings and transitional provisions in <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2013/534" id="cozj3j8k3-00011" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2013" Number="534">S.I. 2013/534</Citation>, art. 6)</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>