Transitional provisions

6.—(1) Regulations 2(1), 3(1)(d), 3(2) and 3(4) of these Regulations shall apply to such parts of proceedings or prospective proceedings which are funded for a client pursuant to certificates granted and amendments made to add new proceedings to an existing certificate, on or after 25th July 2005.

(2) Regulation 3(1)(b) of these Regulations shall not apply to certificates for Investigative Support discharged before 25th July 2005, where any proceedings in respect of which the Investigative Support was given were not pursued (whether or not as funded proceedings) after the discharge of the certificate, and the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000 shall continue to have effect as if regulation 3(1)(b) had not been made.

(3) Regulation 5 of these Regulations shall not apply to certificates for Litigation Support granted before 25th July 2005 and the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000 shall continue to have effect as if that regulation had not been made.

(4) In this regulation reference to a certificate is to a certificate to fund services issued under the Funding Code approved under section 9 of the Access to Justice Act 1999.