{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-financial-amendment-no-3-regulations-2001/regulation-6",
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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": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000",
  "text": "For regulation 5 there shall be substituted:\n“5 (1) This regulation has effect subject to regulations 3, 4 and 5A.\n(2) A client is eligible for Legal Help, Help at Court, and Legal Representation before the Immigration Appeal Tribunal and an adjudicator if his monthly disposable income does not exceed £601, and his disposable capital does not exceed £3,000.\n(3) A client is eligible for Family Mediation if his monthly disposable income does not exceed £683 and his disposable capital does not exceed £8,000.\n(4) A client who is eligible for Family Mediation under paragraph (3) shall also be eligible for Help with Mediation in relation to family mediation.\n(5) A client is eligible for Legal Representation in respect of family proceedings before a magistrates' court, other than proceedings under the Children Act 1989 or Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996, if his disposable income does not exceed £683 per month, but a person may be refused such services where:\n(a) his disposable capital exceeds £8,000; and\n(b) it appears to the assessing authority that the probable cost of the funded services to which the application relates would not exceed the contribution payable by him under regulation 38.\n(6) A client is eligible for Legal Representation (other than as provided for in paragraphs (2) and (5)), General Family Help and Support Funding, and for such other services as are required or authorised by the Lord Chancellor to be funded under section 6(8) of the Act, if his disposable income does not exceed £683 per month, but a person may be refused such services where:\n(a) his disposable capital exceeds £8,000; and\n(b) it appears to the assessing authority that the probable cost of the funded services to which the application relates would not exceed the contribution payable to him under regulation 38.\n5A (1) For the purposes of this regulation, “gross income” means total income from all sources, before any deductions are made.\n(2) This regulation does not apply to any applications to which regulation 4(2) applies.\n(3) In relation to the calculation of gross income:\n(a) regulations 6, 10, 11, 12 and 15 shall apply as if “gross income” were substituted for “disposable income” each time it appears; and\n(b) regulations 21 and 23 shall not apply.\n(4) Subject to regulation 3, where the gross monthly income of the person concerned exceeds £2,000, the assessing authority shall refuse any application for funded services.\nWaiver of eligibility limit in Multi-Party Actions of wider public interest\n5B (1) For the purposes of this regulation, a Multi-Party Action means any action or actions in which a number of clients have causes of action which involve common issues of fact or law arising out of the same cause or event.\n(2) Paragraph (3) applies where:\n(a) the Commission funds Legal Representation or Support Funding in a Multi-Party Action which it considers has a significant wider public interest; and\n(b) the Commission considers it cost-effective to fund those services for a specified claimant or claimants, but not for other claimants or potential claimants who might benefit from the litigation.\n(3) Where this paragraph applies, the Commission may, if it considers it equitable to do so, disapply the eligibility limits in regulations 5(6) and 5A.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3663/regulation/6",
    "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."
}