{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-22",
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  "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/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purpose of this Schedule—\n“A” means the applicant for civil legal services;\n“appropriate health professional” means—\n(a)a medical practitioner licensed to practise by the General Medical Council; or\n(b)a health professional who is registered to practise in the United Kingdom by—\n(i)the Nursing and Midwifery Council;\n(ii)the General Dental Council; ...\n(c)a paramedic, practitioner psychologist, radiographer or social worker registered to practise in the United Kingdom by the Health and Care Professions Council; or\n(d) a medical practitioner, nurse, midwife, dental practitioner, paramedic, practitioner psychologist, radiographer or social worker registered and licensed to practise in the country in which they provide a letter or report, or examine A under this Schedule;\n“B” means the individual with whom A was in a family relationship giving rise to the need for the civil legal services that are the subject of the application;\n“ domestic abuse offence” has the meaning given in the document published by the Lord Chancellor for that purpose under section 2 of the Act;\n“expert report” means a report by a person qualified to give expert advice on all or most of the matters that are the subject of the report;\n“housing association” has the same meaning as in subsection 1(1) of the Housing Associations Act 1985;\n...\n“local authority” means a county council, a district council, a London borough council or a parish council but, in relation to Wales, means a county council, county borough council or community council;\n“protective injunction” means an order made by the court—\n(a)in respect of persons who are in a family relationship with each other, containing any of the following provisions—\n(i)protecting a person from harm, intimidation, threats or harassment;\n(ii)protecting a person from being forced into a marriage or from any attempt to be forced into a marriage;\n(iii)prohibiting a person from contacting, or communicating with, another;\n(iv)concerning entry or access to, or the use or occupation of, property;\n(b)for the protection from female genital mutilation under paragraph 1 or 18 of Schedule 2 to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003; or\n(c)in respect of a violent offender within the meaning of section 98 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008;\nbut does not include an order made without notice to the respondent that was subsequently set aside by the court;\n“public authority” has the same meaning as in section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998;\n“refuge” means—\n(a)a refuge established for the purpose of providing accommodation for victims of, or those at risk of, domestic abuse; or\n(b)a residential home established and maintained by a public body for any other purpose that also provides accommodation to the victims of, or those at risk of, domestic abuse;\n“relevant” means that the evidence—\n(a)identifies a person with whom B is or was in a family relationship as being, or at risk of being, the victim of domestic abuse; or\n(b)is-\n(i)in a form described in paragraphs 1 to 4 of this Schedule;\n(ii)identifies B as the person arrested for, cautioned with, charged with, or convicted of the domestic abuse offence; and\n(iii)relates to a domestic abuse offence which does not identify the victim.",
  "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": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 22 omitted (21.5.2025) by virtue of 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(2)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 22 inserted (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(2)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 22 inserted (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(2)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 22 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": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 22 omitted (1.3.2023) by virtue of The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Family and Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/150), arts. 3(1), 7(3)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3098/schedule/1/paragraph/22",
    "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."
}