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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-financial-amendment-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2899",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-financial-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/516) which govern the financial aspects of the provision of services funded by the Legal Services Commission.\nA new regulation 5D is inserted in the 2000 Regulations in order to implement Articles 3(4) and 5(4) of Council Directive 2002/8//EC of 27th January 2003 about the provision of legal aid for cross-border disputes. New regulation 5D requires the Legal Services Commission to waive the normal financial eligibility criteria and requirement to pay contributions, where a client who is domiciled or habitually resident in another Member State applies for funded services in connection with a cross-border dispute and proves that he is unable to pay the cost of proceedings in England and Wales, or contributions, as a result of differences in the cost of living between his Member State and England and Wales. These amendments apply in relation to applications for services made to the Commission on or after 30th November 2004.\nAn amendment is also made to regulation 19 of the 2000 Regulations, which specifies payments to be disregarded in calculating a person’s income, to substitute “carer’s allowance” for “invalid care allowance”.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2899/note",
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  "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."
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