{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/416",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 so that::—\n(a) the Area Director may revoke or discharge a certificate where the assisted person has made an untrue statement, failed to disclose a material fact or failed to attend for an interview or to provide information or documents in connection with a legal aid application, whether in the same or different proceedings (regulations 3 and 4);\n(b) the statutory charge on property recovered or preserved for the assisted person does not extend to the tools of his trade or to any payment made by the Secretary of State under the Earnings Top-up Scheme (regulation 5);\n(c) payments on account of disbursements may be made after the discharge or revocation of the legal aid certificate (regulation 6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/416/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:24:54.886120+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."
}