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The Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

S.I. 2001/823 · Made 1 March 2001

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LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 1st March 2001

Laid before Parliament 9th March 2001

Coming into force 2nd April 2001

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 11(3) and (4)(g) of the Access to Justice Act 1999f1, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1999 c. 22.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000
  3. 3Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd April 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations a reference to a regulation by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000f1.

2Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000

In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “Commission”, insert—

  • ““costs judge” has the same meaning as in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998f1;”.

3Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000

After regulation 5(3) insert—

“(3A)

An order under paragraph (2) may be made—

(a)

in relation to proceedings in the House of Lords, by the Clerk to the Parliaments;

(b)

in relation to proceedings in the Court of Appeal, High Court or a county court, by a costs judge or a district judge;

(c)

in relation to proceedings in a magistrates' court, by a single justice or by the justices' clerk;

(d)

in relation to proceedings in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, by the Registrar of that tribunal.”.

Signature

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lock

Parliamentary Secretary,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

1st March 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/824). In particular they insert into regulation 5, which contains provisions about costs orders against the Legal Services Commission in proceedings in relation to which a party has been funded by the Commission, a new provision which specifies, in relation to different types of proceedings, which court, tribunal or person may make such costs orders.