{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3098",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A letter from an officer employed by a local authority or housing association (or their equivalent in Scotland or Northern Ireland) for the purpose of supporting tenants containing—\n(a) a statement to the effect that, in their reasonable professional judgment, a person with whom B is or has been in a family relationship is, or is at risk of being, a victim of domestic abuse by B;\n(b) a description of the specific matters relied upon to support that judgment; and\n(c) a description of the support they provided to the victim of domestic abuse or the person at risk of domestic abuse by B.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 inserted (8.1.2018) by The Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1237), regs. 1(2), 2(5), Sch. (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 16(a) substituted (21.5.2025) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/611), arts. 1(1), 5(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 16(c) substituted (21.5.2025) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/611), arts. 1(1), 5(1)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/150",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Family and Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3098/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:36.405182+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."
}