{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-54.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/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Procedure on issue of amendment",
  "text": "(1) Where an Area Director amends a certificate, he shall send two copies of the amendment to the assisted person’s solicitor and one copy to the assisted person.\n(2) A solicitor who receives an amendment sent to him under paragraph (1) shall forthwith–\n(a) if proceedings have begun or otherwise upon their commencement, send a copy of the amendment by post to the appropriate court office or registry, and\n(b) except in the case of an amendment made under regulation 52, serve notice of the fact upon all other parties to the proceedings, and, if any other person becomes a party to the proceedings, serve similar notice upon that person.\n(3) The copy of the amendment sent to the appropriate court office or registry shall form part of the papers for the court in the proceedings.\n(4) Paragraphs (2) and (3) shall not apply to authorised summary proceedings, and, where an assisted person is a party to such proceedings, his solicitor shall, before or at the first hearing that takes place after the amendment has been issued, file the amendment with the clerk to the justices.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/617",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/617",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/54",
    "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."
}