These Regulations amend Schedule 2 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 so as:

• to exclude from the scope of the Community Legal Service, subject to any directions made under section 6(8) of that Act, help in relation to any allegations of personal injury or death (before this amendment, only help in relation to allegations of negligently caused injury or death was excluded) in relation to applications for funded services made on or after 25th July 2005; and

• to include within the scope of the Community Legal Service advocacy in the Crown Court in an application for a restraint order under Part 2 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.