Explanatory note

This Order amends the Community Legal Service (Funding) Order 2007. The 2007 Order limits the power of the Legal Services Commission to pay remuneration under contract for the provision of funded services, and sets out remuneration rates which are payable for funded services.

This Order makes 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 2007 Order contains references to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal which will cease to exist under the Act.

One of the consequences of the 2007 Act is that the ‘review and reconsideration’ process established by the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 will cease to exist. As a result, the system of funding review and reconsideration applications will also cease to exist.

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.