Regulation 3 Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989

The following shall be substituted for regulation 17 and shall stand as paragraph (1) of that regulation:

• “If it appears to an Area Director that an application or certificate could be more conveniently or appropriately dealt with in another area office, he may transfer the application or certificate to that other office.”.

The following paragraph shall be inserted after regulation 17(1):

“(2)

Where a certificate is transferred under this regulation to another area office, the certificate shall, for all purposes, including any obligation by the assisted person to continue to pay a contribution, continue as if it were a certificate issued by that area office.”.