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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-144",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/144",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "144",
  "heading": "Procedure where application referred to master for determination",
  "text": "Where the court in accordance with regulation 143(1)(a) refers the application to a master for hearing and determination–\n(a) the provisions of regulation 147 shall apply as if the master were the court and the court had adjourned the hearing of the application to a date to be fixed; and\n(b) the master shall have the same powers as a taxing officer has in the exercise of his functions under Order 62 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965; and\n(c) the unassisted party or the Area Director may appeal to a judge in chambers on a point of law within 14 days from the determination of the master.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1965/1776; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1986/632."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2036",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/451",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/144",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:43.448906+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."
}