Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 8th April 2002.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, a reference to a regulation by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) Regulations 2001( 2 ).

Transitional provisions

3. These Regulations shall apply to applications for funded services made on or after 8th April 2002 and applications made before that date shall be treated as if these Regulations had not been made.

Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) Regulations 2001

4. In regulation 2:

(a) in the definition of “appropriate officer”, the following shall be inserted after “criminal appeals”:

“ or the head of the Civil Appeals Office ” ; and

(b) the following definition shall be inserted between the definitions of “the Costs Committee” and “funded services”:

“ “the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal” means the Tribunal established under section 132 of the Financial Services and Markets Act ( 3 ) ; ” .

5. The following shall be inserted after regulation 3(2)(g):

“ and

(h) proceedings under section 137 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to appeal against a decision of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal. ” .

6. The following shall be inserted after regulation 4(j):

“ or

(k) is detained under Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000 ( 4 ) . ” .

7. —(1) In regulation 5(3), “£189” shall be substituted for “£186”.

(2) In regulation 5(5), “£89” shall be substituted for “£87”.

8. —(1) In regulation 6(2), after “the Act” there shall be inserted “, and those mentioned in regulation 3(2)(h),”.

(2) In regulation 6(3), after “(criminal proceedings for the purposes of section 12(2)(g) of the Act)” there shall be inserted “, except those mentioned in regulation 3(2)(h)”.

9. In regulation 7, after “a judge of the court”, there shall be inserted “the head of the Civil Appeals Office,”.

10. In regulation 10:

(a) “(Criminal Division)” shall be deleted from the heading;

(b) in paragraph 1(b), “the court.” shall be substituted for “criminal appeals (“the registrar”).”; and

(c) “appropriate officer” shall be substituted for “registrar” wherever it occurs.

11. —(1) In regulation 13, “(Criminal Division)” shall be deleted from the heading.

(2) The following shall be inserted after regulation 13(1)(b):

“ or

(c) in respect of an appeal from the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal, the representatives of the assisted person before the Court of Appeal. ” .

12. In regulation 14, “(Criminal Division)” shall be deleted from the heading.

13. In regulation 17(1), after “regulation 3(2)” there shall be inserted “(a) to (g)”.

14. In Schedule 2, Form A shall be deleted and shall be replaced with the following:

FORM A APPLICATION FOR THE RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS