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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-general-regulations-1986/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1335",
  "legislation_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-general-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Claims for costs",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 12, no claim for costs shall be entertained unless it is submitted within three months of the date on which the costs order was made.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a claim for costs shall be submitted to the appropriate authority in such form and manner as it may direct and shall be accompanied by any receipts or other documents in support of any disbursements claimed.\n(3) A claim shall—\n(a) summarise the items of work done by a solicitor;\n(b) state, where appropriate, the dates on which items of work were done, the time taken and the sums claimed, and\n(c) specify any disbursements claimed, including counsel's fees, the circumstances in which they were incurred and the amounts claimed in respect of them.\n(4) Where there are any special circumstances which should be drawn to the attention of the appropriate authority, the applicant shall specify them.\n(5) The applicant shall supply such further particulars, information and documents as the appropriate authority may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/534",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2096",
      "affecting_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2684",
      "affecting_title": "The Solicitors' Incorporated Practices Order 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/611",
      "affecting_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2866",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Designation as a Licensing Authority) (No. 2) Order 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/617",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2448",
      "affecting_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2448",
      "affecting_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1335/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:43:45.005374+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."
}