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Explanatory note

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These Regulations make changes to Part II of the Community Legal Service (Costs) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/441), which contains provisions about costs orders against parties funded by the Legal Services Commission and costs orders against the Commission.

Amendments are made to clarify the effect of regulation 9, which deals with the procedure for quantifying a costs order against a funded party, and new provisions are inserted which enable the court to order a funded party to pay an amount on account of costs, before the court has finally determined the amount of costs which he should have to pay.