Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 2838
LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003
Made
6th November 2003
Laid before Parliament
10th November 2003
Coming into force
1st December 2003
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st December 2003.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations a reference to a regulation by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000( 3 ).
Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000
3. After regulation 5B (Waiver of eligibility limit in Multi-Party Actions of wider public interest), insert—
“ Waiver of eligibility limit in certain inquests
5C. —(1) This regulation applies to an application for the funding of legal representation to provide advocacy at an inquest into the death of a member of the immediate family of the client.
(2) Where this regulation applies, the Commission may, if it considers it equitable to do so, request the Secretary of State to disapply the eligibility limits in regulations 5(6) and 5A.
(3) In considering whether to make such a request, the Commission shall have regard in particular to any applicable Convention rights under Article 2 of Schedule 1 to the Human Rights Act 1998 ( 4 ) .
(4) On receipt of a request under paragraph (2) the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, disapply the eligibility limits. ” .
4. In regulation 38, after paragraph (8), insert—
“ (8A) Paragraph (9) also applies where the eligibility limits have been disapplied under regulation 5C. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Lammy
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
6th November 2003
by virtue of the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887 ), articles 4(1) and 9, Schedule 1, and Schedule 2, paragraph 11(1)(a).