{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Area committees, Area Directors and legal aid areas",
  "text": "(1) The Board shall, for the purposes of administering the Act, appoint–\n(a) area committees, and\n(b) Area Directors,\nin respect of areas (in these Regulations referred to as “legal aid areas”) to be specified by the Board.\n(2) Area committees and Area Directors so appointed shall exercise functions respectively delegated to them by the Board or conferred on them by these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1822",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2036",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/4",
    "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."
}