{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989",
  "text": "In regulation 3(1):—\n(a) in the definition of “assessment officer” after the words “Secretary of State”, there shall be inserted the words “or the Board”; and\n(b) after the definition of “patient”, there shall be inserted the following:—\n““recognised mediator” means a mediator who is recognised by the Board for the purposes of conducting a meeting described in section 15 (3F) of the Act;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 15(3F) of the Legal Aid Act 1988 (c. 34) was inserted by the Family Law Act 1996 (c. 27), section 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1079/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:09:35.118485+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."
}