Regulation 18 Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000

For regulation 37 there shall be substituted:

“37

Where eligibility is being assessed under regulation 5(5) or 5(6), in calculating the disposable capital of the person concerned, any capital resource may be disregarded where:

(a)

he is restrained from dealing with that resource by order of the court;

(b)

he has requested the court which made the order to release part or all of that resource for use in connection with the proceedings to which the application for funding relates; and

(c)

that request has been refused.”.