{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-80.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/80",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Further power to discharge",
  "text": "The Area Director may discharge a certificate from such date as he considers appropriate–\n(a) with the consent of the assisted person; or\n(b) where the assisted person has been required to make a contribution and any payment in respect of it is more than 21 days in arrears; or\n(c) on being satisfied, by the report of the assisted person’s solicitor or otherwise, that–\n(i) the assisted person has died; or\n(ii) the assisted person has had a bankruptcy order made against him; or\n(iii) the proceedings to which the certificate relates have been disposed of; or\n(iv) the work authorised by the certificate has been completed.",
  "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/80",
    "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."
}