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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1079",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 15(3F) of the Legal Aid Act 1988 (which was inserted by section 29 of the Family Law Act 1996) provides that a person shall not be granted representation for the purposes of proceedings relating to family matters unless he has attended a meeting with a mediator.\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 so as to prescribe the circumstances in which section 15(3F) does not apply. In addition, these Regulations amend the definition of an assessment officer.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1079/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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