2020 No. 472
The Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(3), 41(1) and (3) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 20121.
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st May 2020.
Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 20132
1
The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 20132 are amended as follows.
2
In regulation 21 (hardship payments)—
a
in paragraph (2)(b), for “six months” substitute “one month”; and
b
in paragraph (6), for “£5,000” substitute “£450”.
Transitional provision3
The amendments made by these Regulations apply only in respect of applications for a hardship payment made on or after the day on which these Regulations come into force.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)