{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-costs-regulations-2000/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-costs-regulations-2000/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/441",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Legal Service (Costs) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-costs-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Solicitor to pay money recovered to Commission",
  "text": "(1) The client’s solicitor shall forthwith:\n(a) inform the Regional Director of any money or other property recovered or preserved, and send him a copy of the order or agreement by virtue of which the property was recovered or preserved;\n(b) subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, pay to the Commission all money or other property received by him under regulation 18.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply to any money or other property to which the statutory charge does not apply, by virtue of the Financial Regulations.\n(3) Where he considers it essential to protect the client’s interests or welfare, the Regional Director shall pay, or direct the client’s solicitor to pay, to the client any money received by way of any interim payment made in accordance with an order made under CPR rule 25.6, or in accordance with an agreement having the same effect as such an order.\n(4) The Regional Director may direct the client’s solicitor to:\n(a) pay to the Commission under paragraph (1)(b) only such sums as, in the Regional Director’s opinion, should be retained by the Commission in order to safeguard its interests; and\n(b) pay any other money to the client.\n(5) Where the solicitor pays money to the Commission in accordance with this regulation, he shall identify what sums relate respectively to:\n(a) costs;\n(b) damages;\n(c) interest on costs; and\n(d) interest on damages.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2444",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/441/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:15.841659+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."
}