{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/434",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989",
  "text": "After regulation 7 there shall be inserted the following: —\n“7A (1) Where it appears to the assessment officer that:\n(a) the person concerned has transferred any resources to another person;\n(b) another person is or has been maintaining the person concerned in the proceedings to which the application relates or any other proceedings, or\n(c) any of the resources of another person are or have been made available to the person concerned,\nthe assessment officer shall have power to treat all or any part of the resources of that other person as the resources of the person concerned.\n(2) Where paragraph (1) applies:\n(a) the question of what is or is not a resource of that other person shall be determined, as nearly as the circumstances permit, in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations excluding this regulation, and\n(b) the assessment officer shall assess or estimate the value of those resources to the best of his judgment.\n(3) In this regulation “person”(except in the phrase“person concerned”) includes a company, partnership, body of trustees and any body of persons whether corporate or not corporate.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/434/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:39.589242+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}