Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000, which govern the financial aspects of the provision of services funded by the Legal Services Commission in civil and family matters.

These Regulations make consequential amendments arising from the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, which replaces individual tribunals, including the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, with a new First-tier and Upper Tribunal, grouped into chambers. The 2000 Regulations contain references to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal which will cease to exist under the Act, and to an application to the High Court under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, which process will also cease to exist.

These Regulations replace these references with references to the Immigration and Asylum Chambers of the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal respectively.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been made for this instrument, as it has no significant impact on the costs of businesses, charities or voluntary bodies.