{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Powers exercisable by courts",
  "text": "Where the power to do any act or exercise any jurisdiction or discretion is conferred by any provision of these Regulations on a court, it may, unless it is exercisable only during the trial or hearing of the action, cause or matter, be exercised–\n(a) in respect of proceedings in a county court or the Family Division of the High Court, by the registrar;\n(b) in respect of proceedings in the Chancery or Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court, by a judge, master or district registrar;\n(c) in respect of proceedings in the Court of Appeal, by a single judge of that Court or by the registrar of civil appeals;\n(d) in respect of proceedings in the House of Lords, by the Clerk of the Parliaments;\n(e) by any person who, under any enactment or rules of court, is capable of exercising the jurisdiction of the court in relation to the proceedings in question.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/5",
    "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."
}