{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-financial-amendment-no-3-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3663",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-financial-amendment-no-3-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations amend the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000 so as to:\n(i) further align the financial eligibility limits applied in respect of the various levels of service;\n(ii) introduce a new means test which applies to all levels of service;\n(iii) introduce a limit on the gross monthly income an applicant may have in order to be eligible for any funded services;\n(iv) extend the discretion of the Legal Services Commission in respect of financial eligibility and contributions payable in cases of wider public interest;\n(v) change the manner in which interest on the statutory charge is calculated;\n(vi) make various further changes regarding financial eligibility, contributions and the statutory charge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3663/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:22:51.388530+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."
}