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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-20",
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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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Refusal of emergency certificate",
  "text": "An application for an emergency certificate may be refused–\n(a) on one of the grounds on which a substantive certificate may be refused under regulation 34; or\n(b) on the ground that the applicant is unlikely to fulfil the conditions under which legal aid may be granted; or\n(c) on the ground that it is not in the interests of justice that legal aid be granted as a matter of urgency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2036",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/20",
    "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."
}