{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-financial-resources-and-payment-for-services-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/812",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-financial-resources-and-payment-for-services-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 5(1) (exceptions from requirement to make a determination in respect of an individual’s financial resources)—\n(a) after sub-paragraph (g) insert—\n“(ga) such family mediation as is a Mediation Information and Assessment meeting for an individual (“A”) in relation to any matter described in paragraph 14(1) (mediation in family disputes) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act if—\n(i) A is a party to the Mediation Information and Assessment meeting; and\n(ii) the Director has made a determination that the financial resources of another individual who is a party to that meeting (“B”) are such that B is eligible, for that meeting, for such family mediation as is a Mediation Information and Assessment meeting;”; and\n(b) after sub-paragraph (h) insert—\n“(ha) family mediation in relation to any matter described in paragraph 17(1)(b) (EU and international agreements concerning children) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act to the extent that the matter relates to an applicant under the 1980 Hague Convention;”.\n(3) In regulation 5(2) (interpretation) before the definition of “relevant tribunal” insert—\n““Mediation Information and Assessment meeting” means an assessment by a mediator of whether, in light of all the circumstances, a case is suitable for mediation;\n“mediator” means a mediator with whom the Lord Chancellor has made an arrangement under section 2(1) of the Act (arrangements);”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/480, as amended by S.I. 2013/753 and to which there have been other amendments that are not relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/812/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:21:12.614812+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."
}