{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-75.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/75",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Revocation or discharge of emergency certificate",
  "text": "(1) The Area Director shall revoke an emergency certificate where the assessment officer assesses that the person to whom it was issued has disposable income of an amount which makes him ineligible for legal aid.\n(2) The Area Director shall revoke an emergency certificate where the assessment officer assesses that the person to whom it was issued, having disposable income of an amount which makes him eligible for legal aid, has disposable capital of an amount which renders him liable to be refused legal aid, and it appears to the Area Director that, without legal aid, the probable cost to him of the proceedings in respect of which the emergency certificate was issued would not exceed the contribution which would be payable by him.\n(3) The Area Director may revoke or discharge an emergency certificate if he is satisfied that the assisted person has failed to attend for an interview or to provide information or documents when required to do so under these Regulations, or has failed to accept an offer of a substantive certificate.\n(4) The Area Director may revoke or discharge an emergency certificate upon the expiry of such period (including any extension of that period granted under regulation 24(1)) as he may have allowed for the duration of the certificate.\n(5) No emergency certificate shall be revoked under paragraph (3) until–\n(a) notice has been served on the assisted person and his solicitor that the Area Director may do so and that the assisted person may show cause why the certificate should not be revoked, and\n(b) the assisted person has been given an opportunity to show cause why his certificate should not be revoked.\n(6) Where notice is served under paragraph (5), no further work may be done or steps taken under the certificate unless authorised by the Area Director.",
  "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/75",
    "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."
}