Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 472
Legal Aid And Advice, England And Wales
The Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made
28th April 2020
Laid before Parliament
30th April 2020
Coming into force
1st May 2020
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 2012( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013
2. —(1)The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013( 2 ) 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 provision
3. 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.
Alex Chalk
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
28th April 2020
S.I. 2013/435 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.