{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-costs-amendment-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/649",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Legal Service (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-costs-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for amendments to be made to the Community Legal Service (Costs) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/441).\nRegulation 3 changes the definition of a statement of resources to allow a declaration to be made as to whether or not a party has deliberately foregone or deprived himself of resources or expectations.\nRegulation 4 provides for protection of a litigation friend of an individual who receives funded services and who is either a child or a patient.\nRegulation 5 provides that when making a request for a hearing to determine the costs payable to him under a costs order, the receiving party only has to make a statement of resources when he has to show financial hardship for the purposes of regulation 5(3)(c) of the Community Legal Service (Costs Protection) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/824) (order for costs against the Legal Services Commission in a court of first instance).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/649/note",
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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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