{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-general-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1804",
  "legislation_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-general-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986",
  "text": "After regulation 4 insert—\n“Costs fixed by the court\n4A. Where the court fixes an amount to be paid to the accused out of central funds in accordance with section 16(6C) of the Act or sections 62A(4) or 135A(4) of the Extradition Act 2003, it must, in relation to any amounts payable in respect of legal costs, calculate such amounts in accordance with the rates or scales or other provision made by the Lord Chancellor pursuant to regulation 7(7), whether or not that results in the fixing of an amount that the court considers reasonably sufficient or necessary to compensate the accused. ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsection (6C) is inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c.41. Sections 62A(4) and 135A(4) are inserted by paragraphs 15 and 18 respectively of Schedule 7 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "‘Legal costs’ are defined in section 16A(10) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1804/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:25:55.149212+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}