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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-financial-regulations-2000/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/516",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-financial-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Financial eligibility",
  "text": "(1) This regulation has effect subject to regulations 3 and 4.\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 weekly disposable income does not exceed £84, and his disposable capital does not exceed £1,000.\n(3) A client is eligible for Family Mediation if his weekly disposable income does not exceed £180 and his disposable capital does not exceed £3,000.\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 weekly disposable income does not exceed £180, and his disposable capital does not exceed £3,000.\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 if his disposable income does not exceed £8,067 per year, but a person may be refused such services where:\n(i) his disposable capital exceeds £6,750; and\n(ii) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 27."
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      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2001"
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      "type": "am (with transtl provns)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/906",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
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      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
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      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial)(Amendment) Regulations 2003"
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      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (with transtl provns)",
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      "affecting_title": "The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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