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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-legal-aid-rules-1995/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2034",
  "legislation_title": "The Church of England (Legal Aid) Rules 1995",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules revoke and consolidate, with amendments, the existing rules on ecclesiastical legal aid.\nThe principal amendments of substance are as follows—\n(a) in rule 5, a new paragraph (2) is inserted making express provision for the business of the Legal Aid Commission to be carried out by correspondence if the chairman of the Commission so directs and no other member objects;\n(b) in rule 10, the power to grant interim legal aid certificates to applicants for legal aid, in order to cover costs incurred before the Commission determines their applications, is extended;\n(c) in rule 21(2), sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) are amended so as to extend the rule to cover all types of appeal and all cases where counsel is instructed; and\n(d) a new rule 27 is inserted, enabling the Commission to appoint a committee to carry out taxations and assessments of costs in those cases where the Commission has not directed that the matter is to be dealt with by the full Commission.\nThe rules will come into force on 1st October 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2034/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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