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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-58.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/58",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Determination of appeal against refusal of amendment",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the area committee shall, on an appeal under regulation 57, reconsider the application and determine the appeal in such manner as seems to it to be just and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may–\n(a) dismiss the appeal; or\n(b) direct the Area Director to amend the certificate in such manner as the area committee thinks fit.\n(2) Any decision of an area committee with regard to an appeal shall be final, and it shall give notice of its decision, and the reasons for it, to the assisted person and to his solicitor in a form approved by the Board.\n(3) Nothing in this regulation or regulation 53 shall require the area committee to allow the assisted person to conduct an appeal under this regulation himself or to be represented on any such appeal if the area committee considers that such steps are unnecessary.",
  "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": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/58",
    "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."
}