Citation, commencement, transitional provisions and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Defence Service (Financial Eligibility) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 7th April 2008.

(2) An application for a representation order which is made before 7th April 2008 is to be dealt with as if these Regulations had not been made.

(3) In these Regulations—

(a) a reference to a regulation by number is a reference to the regulation so numbered in the Criminal Defence Service (Financial Eligibility) Regulations 2006( 2 );

(b) a reference to the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to those Regulations.

Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Financial Eligibility) Regulations 2006

2. In regulation 9—

(a) in paragraph (2), for “£12,007” substitute “£12,475”;

(b) in paragraph (3), for “£21,487” substitute “£22,325”.

3. In regulation 10—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “more than £12,007 and less than £21,487” substitute “more than £12,475 and less than £22,325”;

(b) in paragraph (2)(g)(i), for “£5,463” substitute “£5,676”;

(c) in paragraph (3), for “£3,270” substitute “£3,398”.

4. In the Schedule, for “£5,463” substitute “£5,676”.