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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-generalamendment-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/591",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General)(Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-generalamendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation.\nRegulations 2, 3 and 4 make minor amendments (in particular consequent upon repeal of the Land Registration Act 1925) to regulation 95 of the principal Regulations, which provides for enforcement of the statutory charge.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 99(4) of the principal Regulations, which prescribes the rate of interest payable by a client where the Commission postpones the enforcement of a statutory charge in its favour, to prescribe a fixed interest rate of 5% per annum (which has been the applicable rate since 1st April 2002 under regulation 99(4) as it applied before this amendment) for the period 1st April 2005 to 30th September 2005, and thereafter a fixed interest rate of 8% per annum from 1st October 2005.\nThese Regulations apply to transitional cases to which the principal Regulations continue to apply by virtue of the provisions in the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No.3, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/774."
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  "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."
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