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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

2000 CHAPTER 8

Commentary on Sections

Part Ix: Hearings and Appeals

Section 135: Provisions of the legal assistance scheme

245.This section gives examples of the type of provision the Lord Chancellor may include in the regulations, for example:

  • the form legal assistance may take;

  • the persons who may be engaged to provide the assistance;

  • eligibility criteria; and

  • procedural details as to how an application is made, to whom, and as to what happens when assistance is granted.

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