Regulation 5 Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000

In regulation 5C—

(a)

for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2)
Where this regulation applies—

(a)
the Commission may, if it considers it equitable to do so, request the Lord Chancellor to disapply the eligibility limits in regulations 5(3), 5(6) and 5A in respect of an application for funding which falls outside the scope of the Lord Chancellor’s Authorisation;

(b)
the Commission may, if it considers it equitable to do so, disapply the eligibility limits in regulations 5(3), 5(6) and 5A in respect of an application for funding which falls within the scope of the Lord Chancellor’s Authorisation”;

(b)

in paragraph (3), after “request” insert “or waiver”;

(c)

in paragraph (4)—

(i)

for “paragraph (2) the Secretary of State” substitute “paragraph (2)(a) the Lord Chancellor”;

(ii)

for “fit” substitute “it equitable”.