The Community Legal Service (Scope) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 822

LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Community Legal Service (Scope) Regulations 2000

Made

20th March 2000

Coming into force

1st April 2000

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 6(7) of the Access to Justice Act 1999(1), and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, makes the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Community Legal Service (Scope) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Access to Justice Act 1999.

Community Legal Service: excluded services

3.  The following amendments shall be made to Schedule 2 to the Act:

(a) The following shall be inserted at the end of paragraph 2(1):

“(h) the Immigration Appeal Tribunal or before an adjudicator,”;

(b) In paragraph 2(2):

(i) in sub-paragraph (b), the words “4 or” shall be deleted; and

(ii) sub-paragraph (c) shall be deleted; and

(c) In paragraph 2(3)(j), the words “section 8 or 11” shall be substituted for “section 1, 2, 8 or 11”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

20th March 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 in order to provide that:

(i) the provision of advocacy in respect of certain immigration proceedings may be funded as part of the Community Legal Service; and

(ii) advocacy in respect of proceedings under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which are to be funded as part of the Criminal Defence Service is excluded from such funding.

(1)

1999 c. 22.