Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st October 2001.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, a regulation referred to by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000( 2 ).

Transitional provisions

3. These Regulations shall apply to applications for funded services made on or after 1st October 2001 and applications made before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not been made.

Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000

4. —(1) In regulation 3(1)(b):

(a) “initial” shall be deleted; and

(b) after “Legal Help” there shall be inserted:

• “, and Help at Court”.

(2) After regulation 3(1)(g) there shall be inserted:

“ (h) such services as are funded through grants under section 6(3)(c) of the Act except where the terms of the grant provide otherwise. ” .

5. In regulation 5(6), after “Support Funding” there shall be inserted:

• “, and for such other services as are required or authorised by the Lord Chancellor to be funded under section 6(8) of the Act,”.

6. —(1) In regulation 11(4)(a), after “has been” there shall be inserted:

• “or is likely to be”.

(2) In regulation 11(4)(b), after “have been” there shall be inserted:

• “or are likely to be”.

(3) At the end of regulation 11(4), there shall be inserted:

• “, and may assess or estimate the value of those resources as well as it is able.”.

7. In regulation 13, after the words in brackets there shall be inserted:

• “of which he is, or should reasonably be, aware,”.