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The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2003

S.I. 2003/2571 · Made 4 October 2003

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LEGAL SERVICES, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 4th October 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 108(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999f1 and now vested in himf2, makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1999 c. 22.

f2

S.I. 2003/1887.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2003.

2

Section 50 (funding of Ombudsman by professional bodies), section 51 and Schedule 8 (Commissioner) and section 52 (Commissioner’s functions) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 shall come into force on 1st November 2003.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

4th October 2003

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st November 2003 provisions in the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) relating to the funding of the Legal Services Ombudsman by professional bodies and the Legal Services Complaints Commissioner. Section 50 of the 1999 Act amends paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41) to enable the Secretary of State to require any professional body to make payments to the Ombudsman towards meeting the expenditure incurred by him in the discharge of his functions. The other provisions enable the Secretary of State to appoint a Legal Services Complaints Commissioner (section 51) and direct him to exercise some or all of his powers under section 52(1) of the 1999 Act.