http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/section/21/2012-09-01Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012An Act to make provision about legal aid; to make further provision about funding legal services; to make provision about costs and other amounts awarded in civil and criminal proceedings; to make provision about referral fees in connection with the provision of legal services; to make provision about sentencing offenders, including provision about release on licence or otherwise; to make provision about the collection of fines and other sums; to make provision about bail and about remand otherwise than on bail; to make provision about the employment, payment and transfer of persons detained in prisons and other institutions; to make provision about penalty notices for disorderly behaviour and cautions; to make provision about the rehabilitation of offenders; to create new offences of threatening with a weapon in public or on school premises and of causing serious injury by dangerous driving; to create a new offence relating to squatting; to increase penalties for offences relating to scrap metal dealing and to create a new offence relating to payment for scrap metal; and to amend section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-04-022012-09-01 Part 1 Legal aid<Emphasis>Financial resources</Emphasis>Financial resources211A person may not make a relevant determination that an individual qualifies under this Part for services unless the person has determined that the individual's financial resources are such that the individual is eligible for the services (and has not withdrawn the determination).2Regulations may—amake provision about when an individual's financial resources are such that the individual is eligible under this Part for services, andbmake provision for exceptions from subsection (1).3Regulations may provide that an individual is to be treated, for the purposes of regulations under subsection (2), as having or not having financial resources of a prescribed description.4Regulations under subsection (3) may, in particular, provide that the individual is to be treated as having prescribed financial resources of a person of a prescribed description.5Regulations may make provision about the making and withdrawal of determinations under this section.6Regulations under subsection (5) may, in particular, include—aprovision about the form and content of determinations,bprovision permitting or requiring determinations to be made and withdrawn in writing, by telephone or by other prescribed means,cprovision setting time limits for determinations,dprovision about conditions which must be satisfied before a determination is made,eprovision about the circumstances in which a determination may or must be withdrawn,fprovision requiring information and documents to be provided,gprovision requiring individuals who are the subject of a determination to be informed of the reasons for making or withdrawing the determination, andhprovision for the review of a determination in respect of an individual's financial resources.7The circumstances prescribed under subsection (6)(e) may, in particular, relate to whether the individual who is the subject of the determination has complied with requirements imposed by or under this Part.8In this section “relevant determination” means a determination that is required to be carried out in accordance with this section by—asection 11 or 17, orbregulations under section 15 or paragraph 4 of Schedule 3.